''The Miami News'' was an evening newspaper in

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, Florida. It was the

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competitor to the morning edition of the ''

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'' for most of the 20th century. The paper started publishing in May 1896 as a weekly called ''The Miami Metropolis''.

History

''The Miami News'' was founded at ''The Miami Metropolis'' in 1896, and published under that name until 1908. Walter S. Graham served as the newspaper's first editor. In 1903, the ''Metropolis'' became a daily newspaper, except Sundays, eight pages in length. On June 4, 1923, former

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bought the ''Metropolis'' and renamed it the ''Miami Daily News-Metropolis''. On January 4, 1925, the newspaper became the ''Miami Daily News'', and published its first Sunday edition. In 1957, the newspaper shortened its name to ''The Miami News''. 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

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. 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. The ''Miami News'' was edited by Bill Baggs from 1957 until his death in 1969. 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

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-owned ''Miami Herald'' into a new, state-of-the-art building at One Herald Plaza, sharing production facilities with its morning rival while maintaining a separate editorial staff. A 30-year joint operating agreement inked in 1966 made the ''Herald'' responsible for all non-editorial aspects of production, including circulation, advertising and promotion. Citing losses of $9 million per year and declining circulation, from 112,000 in 1966 to 48,000 in 1988 while households in the Dade County area grew 80 percent, Cox put the paper on the market in the fall of 1988. No suitable buyer came forward to save ''The Miami News'', and it ceased publication on December 31, 1988. Some of the newspaper's staff and all of its assets and

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were moved to nearby Cox publication ''

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'', now owned by

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, in

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, and a small selection of photographs were donated to the Archives and Research Center of

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Notable employees

Notable former employees include

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, journalist and author Helen Muir,

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-winning cartoonist

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, ''

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'' columnist

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, photographer Michael O'Brien, columnist John Keasler, and best-selling author Dary Matera, who served as a general assignment reporter from 1977 until 1982.

Pulitzer Prizes

Over its existence, ''The Miami News'' was awarded five

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: * 1939 –

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, 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 in

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and sending in large numbers of

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aircraft. * 1966 –

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, for " You Mean You Were Bluffing?" * 1980 –

, Don Wright

References

External links

''Miami Metropolis''
freely available with full text and full page images in th
''Florida Digital Newspaper Library''''Daily Miami Metropolis''
from 1904 to 1907 freely available with full text and full page images in th
''Florida Digital Newspaper Library''''Miami Daily News''
from 1929 freely available with full text and full page images in th
''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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