Julia Wallace
Market Vice President
Cox Media Group Ohio

Julia Wallace is responsible for operations at Cox Media Group Ohio. They include the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-TV, Springfield News-Sun, the News-Journal of suburban Cincinnati and three radio stations in Dayton.

She moved to Dayton in January of 2011 as senior vice president of news and programming at Cox Media Group Ohio. She was promoted to her current role in May, 2011.

Julia joined the Cox organization in 2000 as Managing Editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. She was named editor in July of 2002.

She was named editor of the year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2004. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution was awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 2006 and 2007. She was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement and received the Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University in 2006.

Julia is a national board member for the Alzheimer’s Association and a board member of the Ohio Association of Broadcasters.

Julia is originally from Rock Island, IL, and graduated from Northwestern University. She began her career in Norfolk, VA at the Ledger-Star and then the Dallas Times-Herald. In 1982, she joined USA Today as a reporter and worked her way up to managing editor/special projects. During that time, she worked in news, sports and special projects. She joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1992 as managing editor. She left in 1996 and joined the Salem (OR) Statesman Journal as executive editor. In 1998, she became managing editor at the Arizona Republic and served two years before moving to Atlanta.

She is married and has two daughters and two step-daughters.