''The Miami SunPost'' was a free weekly community-style newspaper published in
Miami, Florida
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, and distributed in a print edition and an on-line edition every Thursday. The paper covered local news, politics, business, culture, society, and the arts. It circulated in
Miami Beach
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,
North Bay Village
North Bay Village is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 8,159. North Bay Village is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of . o ...
,
Surfside,
Bay Harbor Islands
Bay Harbor Islands is a town in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,922 at the 2020 census. It is separated from the mainland by Biscayne Bay.
History
Bay Harbor Islands was founded by Shepard Broad on April 28, 1947.
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Bal Harbour,
Sunny Isles Beach
Sunny Isles Beach (SIB, officially the City of Sunny Isles Beach) is a city located on a barrier island in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on ...
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North Miami
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North Miami Beach
North Miami Beach (commonly referred to as NMB) is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Originally named "Fulford-by-the-Sea" in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the U.S. Coast Guard, the city was renamed "North Miami Be ...
,
Aventura, Miami's Design District, Wynwood, Upper Eastside, and
Miami Shores. It ceased publishing in 2014.
Writers, columnists, and contributors included columnists Alejandro Arce and
Charles Branham-Bailey
''The Miami SunPost'' was a free weekly community-style newspaper published in Miami, Florida, and distributed in a print edition and an on-line edition every Thursday. The paper covered local news, politics, business, culture, society, and the ar ...
; news writers Frank Maradiaga and Michael Sasser; social editor Jeannette Stark; "411" columnist Mary Jo Almeida-Shore; "Go" columnist Maryanne Salvat; theater reviewer Tony Guzman; literary reviewer John Hood; film critics Ruben Rosario, Crissa-Jean Chappell and George Capewell; and music reviewer Vala Kodish. Erik Bojnansky is a former executive editor. Former staff writers have included Rebecca Wakefield, Angie Hargot, Lee Molloy, Anne Newport Royall and Arthur Carl "A. C." Weinstein.
The paper issued annual special issues including the ''SunPost'' "Best Of the Beaches," recognizing the best places and businesses in South Florida in several categories, and the "''SunPost'' Top 50 People," recognizing local citizens for notable achievements and contributions.
History
The ''SunPost'' was founded by publisher emeritus Felix Stark (1929-1995). Stark, owner of a chain of papers in his native South Africa, bought the daily ''Sun Reporter'' in 1979. In 1985 he started the ''SunPost'',
[ which became the longest-running weekly newspaper in South Florida.
The newspaper never missed a weekly print issue even on the day founder Felix Stark was buried. An article written by the Miami New Times, the Sunpost’s direct competitor, in March 2009 mistakenly attributed the closing of the paper based on a front page obituary to long time columnist A.C Weinstein.] It remained in print until 2014.
"Save Miami Beach" campaign
The ''SunPost'' won a September 1997 "Laurel" by the Columbia Journalism Review
The ''Columbia Journalism Review'' (''CJR'') is a biannual magazine for professional journalists that has been published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961. Its contents include news and media industry trends, ana ...
for the coverage of the "Save Miami Beach" campaign and referendum to curb the size of waterfront construction in the city. The paper was recognized for
:''"keeping its beam on a shadowy deal. When, without any public discussion, the city f Miami Beach
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Hist ...
agreed to adjust its zoning regulations on a $321 million stretch of waterfront property owned by a controversial foreign developer who planned to transform it into a towering 'mini-metropolis' of unlimited height, the local power establishment -- including ''The Miami Herald'' -- lined up in warm support. In contrast, when a group of outraged citizens began collecting signatures for a petition that would refer such 'upzoning' requests to a public vote, the ''SunPost'' took on the lonely job of reporting on its progress. The paper staunchly resisted the pressures of real-estate advertisers, lobbyists, and city hall, as well as a million-dollar p.r. campaign of misinformation. Two years later, on June 3, when the question of who should decide on the development of what's left of the precious waterfront finally went to a referendum, the ''SunPost'' was able to report on a tremendous upset in Dade County politics: the people had won. (In late July 997
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Events
By place
Japan
* 1 February: Empress Teishi gives birth to Princess Shushi - she is the first ...
the developer, Thomas Kramer Thomas Kramer (born April 27, 1957) is a German-born real estate developer and venture capitalist, noteworthy for his part in the redevelopment of South Beach, Miami, Florida. Thomas Kramer's development projects include the Apogee, the Portofino To ...
, was fined $323,000 by the Federal Election Commission for making illegal contributions to the Florida state GOP.)"''["Darts and Laurels," ]Columbia Journalism Review
The ''Columbia Journalism Review'' (''CJR'') is a biannual magazine for professional journalists that has been published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961. Its contents include news and media industry trends, ana ...
, September/October 1997
References
External links
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Mass media in Miami
Defunct newspapers published in Florida
Newspapers established in 1985
Publications disestablished in 2014
1985 establishments in Florida
2014 disestablishments in Florida