''Florida Today'' is the major daily newspaper serving

Brevard County, Florida Brevard County ( ) is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 606,612, making it the 10th-most populated county in Florida. The official county seat is located in ...

. Al Neuharth of the

Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Circulation of the paper tends to be higher in the winter, lower in summer.

History

Gannett Building (Rockledge, Florida) 002

Gannett's ''Florida Today'', initially simply ''TODAY'', was built at the ''Cocoa Tribune'', to compete with the regional and dominant ''

Orlando Sentinel The ''Orlando Sentinel'' is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region. It was founded in 1876 and is currently owned by Tribune Publishing Company. The ''Orlando Sentinel'' is owned by parent company, '' Tribune P ...

'' and the statewide ''

Miami Herald The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County and the Miami metropolitan area, several miles west of Downtown Miami.Brevard Community College Eastern Florida State College, formerly Brevard Community College, is a public college in Brevard County, Florida. It is a member of the Florida College System and has campuses in Cocoa, Melbourne, Palm Bay, and Titusville, as well as a Vir ...

). The section had regular articles in rotation such as Generation Gaps, where teens and someone from an earlier generation (parent, teacher, coach, etc.) wrote opposing views to a topic. The section began expanding into other parts of the paper and throughout the week. It was originally published on the back of Sunday's People section. At a 2006 conference, ''The Verge'' won two national awards: First and Second Place for Best News Story. In May 2007, it was announced that ''The Verge'' would be integrated with the paper, rather than have its own section.

Recognition

The paper was cited in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009 as a Gold Medal Newspaper for overall excellence by Gannett Co.

Editors

*Terry Eberle (2002–2008) *Bob Stover (2008–2014) *Bob Gabordi (2015–2019) *Mara Bellaby (since March 2019)

Notable employees

Jeff Parker (editorial cartoonist) Jeff Parker has been an editorial cartoonist for ''Florida Today'', which serves Florida's Space Coast, since 1992. He also assists Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Mike Peters (cartoonist) with his comic strip, ''Mother Goose & Grimm'' and wo ...

References

External links

* * {{Metro Orlando Newspapers published in Florida Brevard County, Florida Gannett publications Melbourne, Florida 1966 establishments in Florida Publications established in 1966