The ''Miami New Times'' is a newspaper published in

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, Florida, United States, and distributed every Thursday. It primarily serves the

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, and is headquartered in Miami's

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Overview

It was acquired by

Village Voice Media Village Voice Media or VVM is a newspaper company. It began in 1970 as a weekly alternative newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. The company, founded by Michael Lacey (editor) and Jim Larkin (publisher), was then known as New Times Inc. (NTI) and the ...

, then known as New Times Media, in 1987, when it was a

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newspaper called the ''Wave''. The paper has won numerous awards, including a George Polk Award for coverage of the Major League steroid scandal in 2014 and first place in 2008 among weekly papers from the

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for stories about the

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. In 2010, the paper garnered international attention when it published a story by Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock which revealed that anti-gay activist

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had hired a male prostitute to accompany him on a trip to Europe. In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed

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. Author

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is a former writer for the ''Miami New Times''. Former Two Live Crew rapper

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is a columnist for the paper.

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