WASHINGTON BUREAU]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100190083-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: September 7, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Luther Huston
COX NEWSPAPERS
The Washington bureau of the Cox
newspapers is the newest major news bu-
reau in the national capital. It serves the
five afternoon and four morning dailies
and four Sunday papers published by Cox
Enterprises, Inc., in Ohio, Georgia and
Florida.
Cox papers in Atlanta and Dayton have
had correspondents in Washington for
many years. But it was only recently that
Cox Enterprises established a coordinated
Washington operation serving all the
newspapers. The regional papers still
have their individual correspondents but
they operate in conjunction with a nation-
al staff.
The bureau chief is David Kraslow. He
heads a staff composed of national corre-
spondents Eugene V. Risher, Andrew J..
Glass and Jean Heller, and regional cor-
respondents Dbn Winter and Maurice
Fleiss of the Atlanta Journal, Beau Cutts
of the Atlanta Constitution, Andrew Mol-
lison of the Dayton Daily News, and
David Kraslow, bureau chief, and Jean Heller,
investigative reporter, scan a story prepared for
transmission to Cox newspapers.
Charles Osolin of the West Palm Beach
and Miami News. The regional correspon-
dents work under Kraslow's general su-
pervision but are responsible directly to
their editors on local and regional stories.
Helen McMaster is the librarian and,
office manager, and is assisted by Cheri
Revell.
Kraslow's functions are those of a
coordinator. He is not thehardboiled Czar
of a city room such as was portrayed in
Ben Hecht and Charley MacArthur's play
"The Front Page" His job calls for consid-
erable tact in dealing not only with the
bureau staff but also with a bevy of com-
peting editors.
The Cox system differs from that of
many other groups in that it has no over-
all editorial executive. The senior editor
in the group is Jim Fain, editor of the
",Dayton Daily News and the Miami News
and the executive responsible for the
Washington operation. Kraslow reports
;directly to Fain.
Although, the Washington correspon-
dents are in two categories-national and
regional---they can be and often are flex-
ible in producing an integrated news re-
port. A regional correspondent, for in-
stance, scouting the Capitol for news of
his state delegation may dig up a story
that is of wider interest than just the
area he represents. Or an investigative
national correspondent may run across a
story or develop a feature that the editor
of a regional paper would play up.
In that case Kraslow sees to it that the
story or feature goes to the desk of the
appropriate editors. If it was an exclu-
sive, he would decide whether it would go
to the morning papers or the afternoons.
If it was a story that would hold for
Sunday release it would be filed for the
Sunday papers.
The Cox morning and afternoon papers
in Atlanta, Dayton, and West Palm Beach
are intensely competitive. Kraslow must
not only be discreet with . information
about the activities of competing regional
correspondents, but he also must strive to
achieve equity in serving up stories for
the morning, afternoon and Sunday
cycles. Fain is inclined to let Kraslow
decide the cycle flow, but Kraslow has
been given general guidelines and they do
consult on major news breaks. So far, at
least, there have been no serious com-
plaints of unfair treatment from Cox edi-
tors.
Kraslow has been a member of the
Washington press corps since 1956. He
came to the Capitol as correspondent for
the Miami Herald, a Knight newspaper,
and spent eight years in Knight's Wash-
ington bureau. Then he went to the Wash-
ington bureau of the Los Angeles Times,
serving there nine years, the last several
of them as bureau chief. A little more
than two years ago he left the Times and
became assistant managing editor of the
Washington Star-News. In March 1974,
he left the Star-News and organized the
Cox bureau.
The bureau transmits its stories via
automatic Zeros telecopier and a. Telex
network linking the major Cox papers-
Kraslow says they are looking for an even
more sophisticated system and will install
it whenever it is available.
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