The ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'' is a daily
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
, located in
Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota () is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is located in the sout ...
, founded in 1925 as the ''Sarasota Herald''.
History
The newspaper was owned by
The New York Times Company
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History
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. T ...
from 1982 to 2012. It was then owned by
Halifax Media Group
Halifax Media Group was an American newspaper company owning more than 30 newspapers in five Southeastern U.S. States. It was founded on March 31, 2010 when a group of investors purchased ''The Daytona Beach News-Journal'' from the Davidson famil ...
from 2012 to 2015, when
New Media Investment Group
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. SNN was sold to private investors in January 2009.
The original
former headquarters for the newspaper was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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and still exists, containing the
Sarasota Woman's Exchange
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and several other small businesses; the 1969 replacement building torn down in 2010 to make room for a new
Publix
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. The new headquarters building was designed by
Arquitectonica
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and won the American Institute of Architect's Award of Excellence. In early 2017, the ''Herald-Tribune'' moved to new offices next door to its old headquarters on the fourth, fifth and ninth floors of 1777 Main Street.
In 2021, Jennifer Orsi was named executive editor.
Awards and accolades
On April 18, 2011, ''Herald-Tribune'' reporter
Paige St. John won the
Pulitzer Prize
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for investigative journalism for her series on Florida's insurance industry. This was the first Pulitzer in the ''Herald-Tribune''′s history, marking a "sustained commitment to excellence".
On April 18, 2016, ''Herald-Tribune'' reporter Michael Braga won the newspaper's second
Pulitzer Prize
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for investigative journalism for a series in partnership with the Tampa Bay Times called ''Insane. Invisible. In danger'' that detailed the horrific conditions in Florida’s mental health hospitals.
The newspaper has been a Pulitzer Prize winner or finalist four times, its first nomination having been in 2008.
On May 5, 2017, the newspaper won the
Robert F. Kennedy
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Journalism Award for its "Bias on the Bench" investigative series, which found judges throughout Florida sentence black defendants to harsher punishments than whites charged with the same crimes under similar circumstances. That series previously won the American Society of News Editors’ Batten Medal, which honors achievement in public service journalism, and was a finalist for ASNE’s Dori J. Maynard Award for Diversity in Journalism. It also won the
Society of Professional Journalists
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' national
Sigma Delta Chi Award
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. "Bias on the Bench" was also a finalist for Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Innovation in Investigative Journalism — Small; for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; and for the Selden Ring Award from the University of Southern California Annenberg School.
Alumni
Editors of the ''Herald-Tribune'' include Bill Church, now senior vice president of news at GateHouse Media in Austin, Texas; Michael K. Connelly, now executive editor of the ''
Buffalo News
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''; and
Diane McFarlin
Diane McFarlin is an American educator and author. She retired in 2021 as dean of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
Career
McFarlin began her journalism career in high school and took a reporting job at the S ...
, now dean of the
University of Florida
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College of Journalism and Communications. When McFarlin accepted the dean position in January 2013, she had been ''Herald-Tribune'' publisher for 13 years.
Other notable alumni of the newspaper include Chris Davis, now ''
USA Today
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''’s vice president of investigative reporting (Davis, previously investigations editor at the ''Herald-Tribune'' and the ''
Tampa Bay Times
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'' has been involved in seven Pulitzer Prize-winning or finalist projects); Matthew Doig, the assistant managing editor/investigations at the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' (Doig, another former ''Herald-Tribune'' investigations editor was previously investigations editor at the ''
Seattle Times
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'' and ''
Newsday
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''); Aaron Kessler, an investigations reporter at the ''Herald-Tribune'' and now a senior producer at
CNN
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(Kessler also worked at ''
The New York Times
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'',
E.W. Scripps Company
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, 100Reporters and the ''
Detroit Free Press
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''); Anthony Cormier, another former ''Herald-Tribune'' investigations editor and Pulitzer winner who now works for
BuzzFeed
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; and Carol E. Lee, a former ''Herald-Tribune'' reporter, later a
White House
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correspondent for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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''.
Food writer and author
Kathleen Flinn
Kathleen Flinn (born June 1, 1967) is an American writer, journalist and chef. She is best known for the 2007 ''New York Times'' bestseller, ''The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry''.
Early life
Flinn was born in Davison, Michigan, to Milton ...
notes that she first conceived of the concept for her ''The New York Times''-bestselling book,
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
''The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School'' is a New York Times best-selling memoir with recipes by American writer Kathleen Flinn. It was first published by the Viking Press o ...
, while writing obituaries at the paper.
References
External links
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Google Digital microfilm archive 1938-2008
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