The Miami News

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The Miami News was the evening newspaper in Miami, Florida for most of the 20th Century. The paper started publishing in May of 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 Middleton Cox 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 from 1957 until 1969.

In 1973 the News moved in with Miami's morning paper, the The Miami Herald, sharing its production facilities while maintaining a separate editorial staff. The Miami News ceased publication on December 31, 1988.

In 1997 "The Miami News" mast head was published again as a weekly newspaper by a former "News" freelancer, Eric Shore, whose hope it was to bring back a long-missed newspaper name to the Miami area. During the printing of the first 'weekly' edition of *The Miami News, although making a big splash with the local television media, the newspaper was no longer a Cox publication. It was published and edited by Eric Shore, also a former USA Today South Florida correspondant. The Miami News name is still in use, 1997-2007. (*Incorporated, State of Florida-The Miami Daily News, Inc., 1997)

[edit] Pulitzer Prizes

1939 - public service, for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission
1959 - national reporting, 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, Don Wright, for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"
1980 - editorial cartooning, Don Wright