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# Annapolis and Baltimore Media Updates: Barbara Smith-Cox & Richard Fox Have Died
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/annapolis-and-baltimore-media-updates-barbara-smith-cox-richard-fox-have-died/
- Published: 2014-11-18T14:46:08.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-18T18:44:11.000Z
- Author: Jeffrey Davis
- Tags: Media, Communications, #Import 2026-10-08 18:46

**The Annapolis and Baltimore media community** is mourning the loss of **Barbara Smith-Cox**, the news director at WNAV radio. She died of natural causes on Nov. 14 at age 55\. She had fought and won a battle against breast cancer and emceed a forum on cancer survival the night before she died. The previous Sunday, she completed in the Across the Bay 10K race across the Bay Bridge.

**Richard Fox, the first publisher of the Baltimore Business Journal,** died of cancer on Nov. 4 at age 67\. He served as publisher from 1983 until 1987\. A memorial service is scheduled for Nov. 29 at 11 a.m. At St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City.