''The Miami News'' was an evening newspaper in Miami, Florida. It was the media market competitor to the morning edition of the ''
Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a List of communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, city in western Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County and the M ...
'' for most of the 20th century. The paper started publishing in May 1896 as a weekly called ''The Miami Metropolis''.
The ''Metropolis'' had become a daily (except Sunday) paper of eight pages by 1903. On June 4, 1923, former Ohio governor
James M. Cox
James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 July 15, 1957) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th and 48th governor of Ohio, and a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio. As the Democratic nominee for President of the United St ...
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.
Cox had a new building erected for the newspaper, and the Miami News Tower was dedicated on July 25, 1925. This building later became famous as the Freedom Tower. 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 ''News'' was edited by
Bill Baggs
William Calhoun Baggs (b. 1923–1969) was an American journalist and editor of ''The Miami News'' (1957 to 1969). He was one of a small group of Southern newspaper editors who campaigned for civil rights for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960 ...
from 1957 until his death 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 ''News'' moved in with the
Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by McClatchy on June 27, 2006, it was the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspaper brand ...
-owned ''Herald'' 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, declining circulation (from 112,000 in 1966 to 48,000 in 1988 while households in the Dade County area grew 80 percent) and owner
Cox Newspapers
CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company pri ...
unable to find a suitable buyer to save the paper, the ''News'' ceased publication on December 31, 1988. Some of the newspaper's staff and all of its assets and archives were moved to nearby Cox publication '' The Palm Beach Post'' (now owned by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.West Palm Beach.
A small selection of photographs were donated to the Archives and Research Center of
HistoryMiami
HistoryMiami Museum, formerly known as the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, is a museum located in Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. HistoryMiami Museum is the largest history museum in the State of Florida. HistoryMiami houses four per ...
.
History
''The Miami Metropolis'' was published from 1896 to 1908. Walter S. Graham served as editor.
Dorothy Misener Jurney
Dorothy Misener Jurney (May 8, 1909 – June 19, 2002) was an American journalist. As women's page editor for the ''Miami Herald'', she shifted the focus of those pages from the "Four F's – family, food, fashion, and furnishings" – to ...
Pulitzer Prize
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Adrian Walker
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Career
A native of Miami, Walker, who is African-American, began his ca ...
John Keasler
John Irvin Keasler (August 3, 1921 – September 5, 1995) was an American newspaper columnist for ''The Miami News'', which folded in 1988.
Keasler grew up in Plant City, Florida, which is 26 miles east of Tampa. He got his start in journalism wit ...
and best-selling author
Dary Matera
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, who served as a general assignment reporter from 1977 until 1982.
Pulitzer Prizes
* 1939 – public service, for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission
* 1959 –
national reporting
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Li ...
, 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 Cuba and sending in large numbers of MIG-21 aircraft.
* 1966 –
editorial cartooning
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You Mean You Were Bluffing?
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History
''You'' comes from the Proto- ...
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* 1980 –
editorial cartooning
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