The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered in Downtown Miami, Florida. It primarily serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Florida, but also circulates throughout South Florida, the Caribbean, Latin America, and throughout the United States.
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The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered in Downtown Miami, Florida. It primarily serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Florida, but also circulates throughout South Florida, the Caribbean, Latin America, and throughout the United States.
Overview
The newspaper employs 2,024 people in Miami and across several bureaus, including Bogotá, Managua, Tallahassee, Vero Beach, Key West, Broward County, and shared space in McClatchy's Washington bureau. Its newsroom staff of about 450 includes 144 reporters, 69 editors, 69 copy editors, 29 photographers, five graphic artists (not including page designers), 11 columnists, six critics, 48 editorial specialists, and 18 news assistants.
The newspaper has been awarded 19 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists are Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr., humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists include Ana Menendez, Fred Grimm, Edwin Pope, and Robert Steinback. David Landsberg is the publisher, and Anders Gyllenhaal is the executive editor.
The newspaper averages 88 pages daily and 212 pages Sunday. The Herald's coverage of Latin American and Hispanic affairs is widely considered among the best of U.S. newspapers.
History
During the Florida Real Estate Boom for thirteen months in 1925 and 1926 The Miami Herald was the largest newspaper in the world as measured by lines of advertising. At this time the newspaper was owned by financiers Henry Carnegie Phipps and John Shaffer Phipps of New York City. The Phipps' sold the newspaper in 1939 after the Florida economy experienced an extreme decline.
The Herald came close to receivership but recovered in the 1930s.
On October 25, John S. Knight, son of a noted Ohio newspaperman, bought The Herald from Frank B. Shutts. Knight became editor and publisher and made his brother, James L. Knight, the business manager. The Herald had 383 employees.
Lee Hills arrived as city editor in September 1942. He later became The Herald's publisher and eventually chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc., a position he held until 1981.
The Miami Herald International Edition, printed by partner newspapers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, began in 1946. It was later extended to Mexico in 2002.
The Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1950, for its reporting on Miami's organized crime. Its circulation was 176,000 daily and 204,000 on Sundays.
On August 19, 1960, construction began on the present Herald building on Biscayne Bay. Also on that day, Alvah H. Chapman, started work as James Knight's assistant. Chapman was later promoted to Knight-Ridder chairman and chief executive officer. The Herald moved into its new building at One Herald Plaza without missing an edition on March 23-24, 1963.
