Former Dayton journalist was Cox's first top editor

The Indiana native got his start in newspapers in Ohio.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Charles E. Glover, a veteran journalist who was the first editor-in-chief of media company Cox Enterprises Inc.'s newspaper group, has died. He was 79.
Glover died Saturday at an Atlanta hospice, according to two Cox newspapers, the Dayton Daily News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Glover retired in 1989 as the first editor-in-chief of Cox Newspapers, a publishing group that included 21 dailies. He continued to serve as a director of Cox Enterprises.
A native of Stone Bluff, Ind., Glover grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He began work as a reporter at Cox's Dayton Journal Herald in 1949, following Navy service in the Pacific in World War II and his studies at Ohio University in Athens.
Long career
Over the next four decades, Glover held several reporting, managerial and executive positions within the newspaper group.
He was named president of Cox Enterprises in 1977 and soon moved to Atlanta.
When Cox Communications Inc., a publicly traded broadcasting company, merged in 1985 with Cox Enterprises to form the present privately owned media firm, Glover was named executive vice president of Cox Enterprises and president of Cox Newspapers. The following year he was named editor-in-chief of the company's newspaper publishing division.
Survivors include two sons, a grandson and a sister.
A funeral service is planned in Dayton, where Glover will be buried next to his wife. A memorial will be held in Atlanta. Arrangements are still being completed.