The Miami News
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The Miami News was an evening newspaper in Miami, Florida. It was the media market competitor to the morning edition of the Miami Herald for most of the 20th century. The paper started publishing in May 1896 as a weekly called The Miami Metropolis.[1]
History
The Miami News was founded at The Miami Metropolis in 1896,[2] and published under that name until 1908. Walter S. Graham served as the newspaper's first editor.[3] In 1903, the Metropolis became a daily newspaper, except Sundays, eight pages in length.[4]
On June 4, 1923, former
In 1957, the newspaper shortened its name to The Miami News.[7]
Cox had a new building erected for the newspaper, the Miami News Tower, which was dedicated on July 25, 1925. The building was later renamed and repurposed as the Freedom Tower. Also on July 25, 1925, the News published a 508-page edition, which still holds the record for the largest page-count for a newspaper.[6]
The Miami News was edited by Bill Baggs from 1957 until his death in 1969.[8] After that, it was edited by Sylvan Meyer until 1973. Its final editor was Howard Kleinberg, a longtime staffer and author of a comprehensive history of the newspaper. The paper had the distinction of posting its own demise on the final obituary page.
In 1966, the Miami News moved in with the
Some of the newspaper's staff and all of its assets and
Notable employees
Notable former employees include writer
Pulitzer Prizes
Over its existence, The Miami News was awarded five
- 1939 – public service, for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission
- 1959 – national reporting, Howard Van Smith, for a series of articles that focused public notice on deplorable conditions in a Florida migrant labor camp, resulted in the provision of generous assistance for the 4,000 stranded workers in the camp, and thereby called attention to the national problem presented by 1,500,000 migratory laborers.
- 1963 – MIG-21aircraft.
- 1966 – editorial cartooning, Don Wright, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"
- 1980 – editorial cartooning, Don Wright
References
- ^ "Miami Chronology: 1500s to 1900". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on December 9, 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "The Miami Metropolis: The City's First Newspaper". 7 August 2018.
- ^ "The Miami Metropolis (Miami, Fla.) 1896-1908". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Miami Chronology: 1900 to 1920". Miami Herald. September 13, 2002. Archived from the original on January 6, 2005. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ Muir, Helen (1953). Miami, USA. New York: Henry Holt and Company. pp. 141–42.
- ^ a b "Miami Chronology: 1920-1940". Miami Herald. September 13, 2002. Archived from the original on December 12, 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "The Miami News (Miami, Fla.) 1957-Current". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
Preceding Titles | Miami Daily News
- ^ "Miami Chronology: 1960-1980". Miami Herald. September 13, 2002. Archived from the original on January 31, 2005. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ Kleinberg, Howard (1987). "History of The Miami News: 1896-1987" (PDF). Tequesta. 47: 27 – via Florida International University Digital Commons.
- ^ "Miami paper facing sale or shutdown". Waco Tribune-Herald. Cox News Service. October 25, 1988.
- ^ Knight, Jerry (December 31, 1988). "Miami News to Publish Final Edition". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ Morris, Steven (January 4, 1989). "Cox Seeks Buyers Of Miami News' Assets". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ "Miami News Collection". HistoryMiami. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
External links
- Miami Metropolis, freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Daily Miami Metropolis, from 1904 to 1907 freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Miami Daily News, from 1929 freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- History of The Miami News, 1896-1987, by Howard Kleinberg. Centennial history of The Miami News, written by its last editor.
- Sylvan Meyer and The Miami News
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