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The Miami News

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]

Type

Daily evening newspaper

Broadsheet

Cox Enterprises (Cox Media Group)

May 15, 1896 (1896-05-15) (as The Miami Metropolis)

December 31, 1988 (1988-12-31)

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Notable employees[edit]

Notable former employees include writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Dorothy Misener Jurney, journalist and author Helen Muir, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Don Wright, Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker, photographer Michael O'Brien, columnist John Keasler, and best-selling author Dary Matera, who served as a general assignment reporter from 1977 until 1982.

1939 – , for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission

public service

1959 – , 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.

national reporting

1963 – , Hal Hendrix, for his persistent reporting which revealed, at an early stage, that the Soviet Union was installing missile launching pads in Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft.

international reporting

1966 – , Don Wright, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"

editorial cartooning

1980 – , Don Wright

editorial cartooning

Over its existence, The Miami News was awarded five Pulitzer Prizes:

freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Miami Metropolis

from 1904 to 1907 freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Daily Miami Metropolis

from 1929 freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Miami Daily News

by Howard Kleinberg. Centennial history of The Miami News, written by its last editor.

History of The Miami News, 1896-1987

Sylvan Meyer and The Miami News