South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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| South Florida Sun-Sentinel | |
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 The 2007-03-06 front page of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Tribune Company |
| Publisher | Howard Greenberg |
| Editor | Earl Maucker |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Headquarters | 200 East Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301  United States |
| Circulation | 226,591 Daily 319,103 Sunday[1] |
| ISSN | 0744-8139 |
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| Website: sun-sentinel.com | |
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, owned by the Tribune Company, is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and all of Broward County. Its main competitor in this area is The Miami Herald, out of neighboring Miami-Dade County to the south.
For many years, it exclusively targeted Broward County. However, it expanded its coverage to all of south Florida (including the Miami-Dade and West Palm Beach areas) in the late 1990s. In this area, The Palm Beach Post is the main rival of the Sun-Sentinel.
The Sun-Sentinel publishes various websites including Sun-Sentinel.com, SouthFlorida.com, SFParenting.com and CityLinkOnline.com. The Sun-Sentinel is the result of a newspaper merger from the 1950s, combining the Pompano Beach Sun with the Fort Lauderdale Sentinel to form the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. It changed its name to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in the 1990s.
The Sun-Sentinel emphasizes providing local news, through its Community News and Local sections. It reaches more than 600,000 readers daily and more than 850,000 on Sundays. Although it has not won a Pulitzer Prize, it has been a "nominated finalist" numerous times, including its 2006 coverage of Hurricane Wilma and an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency's mismanagement of hurricane aid.
In 2001, the Sun-Sentinel opened its first full-time foreign bureau in Havana, Cuba. Shared with the Tribune Co., their Havana newsroom is the only permanent presence of any South Florida newspaper.
In 2002, the Sun-Sentinel began publishing a Spanish weekly newspaper, El Sentinel. The newspaper is distributed free on Saturdays to Hispanic households in Broward and Palm Beach counties and is also available in racks in both counties. It's also available online at Elsentinel.com. In 2004, the paper won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for its coverage of health and human services in the state.
Sun-Sentinel's website has news video from two South Florida television stations: West Palm Beach's NBC affiliate WPTV and WSFL, the Miami and Fort Lauderdale CW affiliate.
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- ^ 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-29.
