Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, which has owned the Austin American-Statesman since 1976, has just announced it will try to sell the local daily sometime by the first quarter of 2009. You might as well get the initial details straight from the horse’s mouth.

This article appears in August 8 • 2008.

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