Cox Enterprises vice chairman, former AP board member, David Easterly to retire

ATLANTA - David E. Easterly, vice chairman of Cox Enterprises Inc. and a former publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said Tuesday he is retiring after 32 years at the company. <br> <br> Easterly, 59, will continue working as a consultant for the Atlanta-based media company and remain vice chairman of Cox Enterprises&#39; board and a member of the boards of Cox&#39;s radio and newspaper divisions. <br> <br> G. Dennis Berry, Cox Enterprises&#39; president and chief operating officer, has assumed Easterly&#39;s duties. <br> <br> This week, Easterly said he plans to help teach a business course at Morehouse College. Also, &#34;I have a pitiful golf game I hope to improve and I will try to find as many fish to catch as I possibly can,&#34; he said. <br> <br> Easterly served as a member of The Associated Press board for nine years, departing in 2001. <br> <br> He joined Cox&#39;s headquarters staff in 1981 as vice president of operations for Cox Newspapers and was named publisher of the Journal-Constitution, the company&#39;s flagship newspaper, in 1984. He was named president of Cox Newspapers in 1986 and president of its parent, Cox Enterprises, in 1994. He became vice chairman in 2000. <br> <br> Easterly began his career as a reporter at the Dayton Daily News in 1970. <br> <br>