The Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. It primarily serves the Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2004, The Herald has a daily readership of about one million readers with a daily circulation of about 300,000 (almost 450,000 on Sundays), mostly in South Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Overview

The newspaper employs 2,024 people in Miami and across several bureaus. These include Bogotá, Managua, Tallahassee, Washington, Vero Beach, Key West, and Hollywood (Florida). Its newsroom staff of about 450 includes 144 reporters, 69 editors, 69 copyeditors, 29 photographers, 23 graphic artists, 11 columnists, six critics, 48 editorial specialists, and 18 news assistants.

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Miami - Bogotá - Managua - Tallahassee - Washington - Vero Beach - Key West - Hollywood - Reporter - Editor - Copyeditor - Photographer - Graphic artist - Columnist - Critics

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The newspaper has been awarded 18 Pulitzer Prizes. Well-known columnists are Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr., humorist Dave Barry (who writes special articles of local interest specificially for the paper in addition to his nationally syndicated weekly article), and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists include Liz Balmaseda, Fred Grimm, Edwin Pope, Robert L. Steinback, and Ana Veciana-Suarez. Alberto Ibargüen is the chairman and Tom Fiedler is the executive editor.

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Pulitzer Prize - Dave Barry - Carl Hiaasen

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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.

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While the Miami Herald is commonly referred to as just The Herald, that name belongs to another newspaper, the Broward County-edition of the Miami paper published daily.

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