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The Miami News
The July 12, 1972 front page ofThe Miami News
TypeDaily eveningnewspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Cox Enterprises(Cox Media Group)
FoundedMay 15, 1896(1896-05-15)(asThe Miami Metropolis)
Ceased publicationDecember 31, 1988(1988-12-31)
Headquarters
OCLCnumber10000467

The Miami Newswas an evening newspaper inMiami,Florida. It was themedia marketcompetitor to the morning edition of theMiami Heraldfor most of the 20th century. The paper started publishing in May 1896 as a weekly calledThe Miami Metropolis.[1]

History

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TheMiami Daily Newsfront page on August 6, 1945, covering theatomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Miami Newswas founded atThe Miami Metropolisin 1896,[2]and published under that name until 1908. Walter S. Graham served as the newspaper's first editor.[3] In 1903, theMetropolisbecame a daily newspaper, except Sundays, eight pages in length.[4]

On June 4, 1923, formerOhio governorJames M. Coxbought theMetropolisand renamed it theMiami Daily News-Metropolis.[5]On January 4, 1925, the newspaper became theMiami Daily News,and published its first Sunday edition.[6]

In 1957, the newspaper shortened its name toThe 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 theFreedom Tower.Also on July 25, 1925, theNewspublished a 508-page edition, which still holds the record for the largest page-count for a newspaper.[6]

TheMiami Newswas edited byBill Baggsfrom 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, theMiami Newsmoved in with theKnight Ridder-owned One Herald Plaza, sharing production facilities with its morning rival while maintaining a separate editorial staff.[9]A 30-year joint operating agreement inked in 1966 made theHeraldresponsible for all non-editorial aspects of production, including circulation, advertising and promotion. Citing losses of $9 million per year, declining circulation, from 112,000 in 1966 to 48,000 in 1988 while households in theDade Countyarea grew 80 percent, Cox put the paper on the market in the fall of 1988.[10]No suitable buyer came forward to saveThe Miami News,and it ceased publication on December 31, 1988.[11][12]

Some of the newspaper's staff and all of its assets andarchiveswere moved to nearby Cox publicationThe Palm Beach Post,now owned byGannett,inWest Palm Beach,and a small selection of photographs were donated to the Archives and Research Center ofHistoryMiami.[13]

Notable employees

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Notable former employees include writerMarjory Stoneman Douglas,Dorothy Misener Jurney,journalist and authorHelen Muir,Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonistDon Wright,Boston GlobecolumnistAdrian Walker,photographerMichael O'Brien,columnistJohn Keasler,and best-selling authorDary Matera,who served as a general assignment reporter from 1977 until 1982.

Pulitzer Prizes

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Over its existence,The Miami Newswas awarded fivePulitzer Prizes:

  • 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 –international reporting,Hal Hendrix, for his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads inCubaand sending in large numbers ofMIG-21aircraft.
  • 1966 –editorial cartooning,Don Wright,for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"
  • 1980 –editorial cartooning,Don Wright

References

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  1. ^"Miami Chronology: 1500s to 1900".Miami Herald.Archived fromthe originalon December 9, 2004.Retrieved30 September2014.
  2. ^"The Miami Metropolis: The City's First Newspaper".7 August 2018.
  3. ^"The Miami Metropolis (Miami, Fla.) 1896-1908".Library of Congress.
  4. ^"Miami Chronology: 1900 to 1920".Miami Herald.September 13, 2002. Archived fromthe originalon January 6, 2005.Retrieved30 September2014.
  5. ^Muir, Helen (1953).Miami, USA.New York: Henry Holt and Company. pp. 141–42.
  6. ^ab"Miami Chronology: 1920-1940".Miami Herald.September 13, 2002. Archived fromthe originalon December 12, 2004.Retrieved30 September2014.
  7. ^"The Miami News (Miami, Fla.) 1957-Current".Library of Congress.Retrieved2023-10-02.Preceding Titles | Miami Daily News
  8. ^"Miami Chronology: 1960-1980".Miami Herald.September 13, 2002. Archived fromthe originalon January 31, 2005.Retrieved30 September2014.
  9. ^Kleinberg, Howard (1987)."History of The Miami News: 1896-1987"(PDF).Tequesta.47:27 – via Florida International University Digital Commons.
  10. ^"Miami paper facing sale or shutdown".Waco Tribune-Herald.Cox News Service. October 25, 1988.
  11. ^Knight, Jerry (December 31, 1988)."Miami News to Publish Final Edition".The Washington Post.RetrievedFebruary 12,2018.
  12. ^Morris, Steven (January 4, 1989)."Cox Seeks Buyers Of Miami News' Assets".Chicago Tribune.RetrievedFebruary 12,2018.
  13. ^"Miami News Collection".HistoryMiami.RetrievedMarch 30,2012.
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