Miami Herald

The newspaper has been awarded 24 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/359.html|title=Our Markets: Miami Herald|publisher=The McClatchy Company|archive-date=April 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420181414/http://www.mcclatchy.com/2012/06/27/2736/miami-herald.html|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} Well-known columnists include Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts Jr., Pulitzer-winning reporter Mirta Ojito, humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists have included Fred Grimm and sportswriters Michelle Kaufman, the late Edwin Pope, Dan Le Batard, Bea Hines and Greg Cote.

The Miami Herald participates in "Politifact Florida", a website that focuses on Florida issues, with the Tampa Bay Times. The Herald and the Times share resources on news stories related to Florida.{{cite web |url=http://www.politifact.com/florida/|title=PolitiFact Florida | Sorting out the truth in politics|website=Politifact.com|access-date=October 22, 2012}}

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In 1903, Frank B. Stoneman, father of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, reorganized and moved the Orlando Record to Miami.[http://miami-history.com/news/miami-evening-record-formed-in-1903/ Miami Evening Record Formed in 1903] The first edition was published September 15, 1903, as the Miami Evening Record.{{cite web |title=Headlines!; Unfolding 117 Years of History with the Miami Herald |url=https://coralgablesmuseum.org/portfolio-item/headlines/ |website=Coral Gables Museum |access-date=11 May 2023}} After the recession of 1907, the newspaper had severe financial difficulties. In December 1907 it began to publish as the Miami Morning News-Record. Its largest creditor was Henry Flagler. Through a loan from Henry Flagler, Frank B. Shutts, who was also the founder of the law firm Shutts & Bowen, acquired the paper and renamed it the Miami Herald on December 1, 1910. Shutts, originally from Indiana, had come to Florida to monitor the bankruptcy proceedings of the Fort Dallas Bank. Although it is the longest continuously published newspaper in Miami, the earliest newspaper in the region was The Tropical Sun, established in 1891. The Miami Metropolis, which later became The Miami News, was founded in 1896, and was the Herald{{'}}s oldest competitor until 1988, when it went out of business.{{Cite web|title=Miami Evening Record Formed in 1903|url=https://miami-history.com/news/miami-evening-record-formed-in-1903/|access-date=2021-04-23|website=Miami History Blog|language=en-US}}

During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, the Miami Herald was the largest newspaper in the world, as measured by lines of advertising.{{cite book|last=Smiley|first=Nixon|title=Knights of the Fourth Estate: The Story of the Miami Herald|location=Miami|publisher=E. A. Seeman|year=1974|isbn=978-0-912458-42-7|page=54}} During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the Herald came close to receivership, but recovered.

On October 25, 1939, John S. Knight, son of a noted Ohio newspaperman, bought the Herald from Frank B. Shutts. Knight became editor and publisher, and made his brother, James L. Knight, the business manager. The Herald had 383 employees. Lee Hills arrived as city editor in September 1942. He later became the Herald{{'}}s publisher and eventually the chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc., a position he held until 1981.

The Herald was also involved in its first First Amendment Supreme Court case, Pennekamp v. Florida 328 U.S. 331 (1946), in which it and one of its editors, John D. Pennekamp for whom John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is named for, were held in contempt of court by the Dade County Circuit Court for two publications it made on November 2 and November 7 in 1944, both of which were critical of the court's operations.{{Cite web |last=Ville |first=John R. |date=January 1, 2009 |title=Pennekamp v. Florida (1946) |url=https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pennekamp-v-florida/ |access-date=August 22, 2024 |website=firstamendment.mtsu.edu}}{{Cite web |last=Terrell |first=William Glenn |date=July 24, 1946 |title=Opinion {{!}} Pennekamp, et al., v. State, 156 Fla. 227, 22 So. 2d 875 (Fla. 1945) |url=https://casetext.com/case/pennekamp-et-al-v-state |access-date=August 22, 2024 |website=casetext.com}} The Supreme Court sided with Pennekamp and the Herald, and ultimately held that under the facts of that case, "the danger to fair judicial administration has not the clearness and immediacy necessary to close the door of permissible public comment, and the judgment is reversed as violative of petitioners' right of free expression in the press under the First and Fourteenth Amendments."{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Stanley F. |date=June 3, 1946 |title=Opinion {{!}} Pennekamp v. Florida, 328 U.S. 331 (1946) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/328/331/ |access-date=June 22, 2024 |website=supreme.justia.com}}

The Miami Herald International Edition, printed by partner newspapers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, began in 1946. It is commonly available at resorts in the Caribbean countries such as the Dominican Republic, and, though printed by the largest local newspaper Listín Diario, it is not available outside such tourist areas. It was extended to Mexico in 2002.{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Miami-Herald|title=The Miami Herald {{!}} American newspaper|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-08-25|language=en}}

The Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1950, for its reporting on Miami's organized crime. Its circulation was 176,000 daily and 204,000 on Sundays.

On August 19, 1960, construction began on the Herald building on Biscayne Bay. Also on that day, Alvah H. Chapman, started work as James Knight's assistant. Chapman was later promoted to Knight-Ridder chairman and chief executive officer. The Herald moved into its new building at One Herald Plaza{{cite news |title=Former Miami Herald Site on Biscayne Bay Sells for $1.2 Billion |url=https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/former-miami-herald-site-on-biscayne-bay-sells-for-1-2-billion/3023531/ |access-date=11 May 2023 |work=NBC 6 South Florida |date=April 27, 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Beasley |first1=Ron |title=Demolition of the Miami Herald building — end of an era |url=https://communitynewspapers.com/opa-locka/demolition-of-the-miami-herald-building-end-of-an-era-2/ |access-date=11 May 2023 |work=North Miami Beach News |date=7 July 2014}}{{cite news |last1=VIGLUCCI |first1=ANDRES |title=Bids top $1 billion for Miami waterfront land where Genting wanted to build casino |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article273648785.html |access-date=11 May 2023 |work=miami herald |date=April 27, 2023}} without missing an edition on March 23–24, 1963.

The paper also won another press freedom case in Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974).{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-21201322.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509083623/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-21201322.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 9, 2013 |title=Dan Paul, 85, leading lawyer for press freedom|author=Dennis Hevesi|date=February 2, 2010|work=The Boston Globe|publisher=|access-date=April 24, 2013}} In the case, Pat Tornillo Jr., president of the United Teachers of Dade, had requested that the Herald print his rebuttal to an editorial criticizing him, citing Florida's "right-to-reply" law, which mandated that newspapers print such responses. Represented by longtime counsel Dan Paul, the Herald challenged the law, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court.{{cite book|author1=Richard Campbell|author2=Christopher R. Martin|author3=Bettina Fabos|title=Media and Culture with 2013 Update: An Introduction to Mass Communication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYC_WEqUcAUC&pg=PA498|access-date=April 24, 2013|date=February 20, 2012|publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|isbn=978-1-4576-0491-1|page=498}} The Court unanimously overturned the Florida statute under the Press Freedom Clause of the First Amendment, ruling that "Governmental compulsion on a newspaper to publish that which 'reason' tells it should not be published is unconstitutional."{{cite web|url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=US&vol=418&page=241|title=Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974)|publisher=via FindLaw|access-date=April 24, 2013|archive-date=June 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606153557/http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=US&vol=418&page=241|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}} The decision showed the limitations of a 1969 decision, Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, in which a similar "fairness doctrine" had been upheld for radio and television, and establishing that broadcast and print media had different Constitutional protections.

The first African American man to be a reporter at the Herald was Thirlee Smith, Jr. in 1967.{{cite web |title=Thirlee, Smith Jr. AT&T Miami-Dade County African-American History Calendar 2005/2006. {{!}} The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South FL, Inc. |url=https://www.theblackarchives.org/archon/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=204 |website=The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South FL, Inc. |access-date=17 November 2024}}

The first African American woman to work as a reporter at the Miami Herald was Bea Hines, starting on June 16, 1970.{{cite news |last1=Chrissos |first1=Joan |title=Bea Hines, documenting Miami's pride and pain for more than 50 years, earns top award |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article280113929.html |access-date=15 November 2024 |work=Miami Herald |date=October 7, 2023}} Hines was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for columns which included topics like police brutality and profiling.{{cite web |title=Finding Aid to The HistoryMakers ® Video Oral History with Bea L. Hines |url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2014_201_EAD.pdf |website=The HistoryMakers |access-date=16 November 2024}}

Publication of a Spanish-language supplemental insert named El Herald began in 1976. It was renamed El Nuevo Herald in 1987, and in 1998 became an independent publication. The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald quickly took diverging editorial directions, sometimes leading to tense relations and conflicting information about the Hispanic community in the USA.{{Cite web |last=Gutiérrez |first=Bárbara |date=2001-06-15 |title=El Nuevo Herald Provides a Latin American Take On the News |url=https://niemanreports.org/articles/el-nuevo-herald-provides-a-latin-american-take-on-the-news/ |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=Nieman Reports |language=en-US}}

In 1997, the Miami Herald assigned the first national reporter charged with covering LGBT news. Reporter Steve Rothaus, who had been with the paper since 1985, was assigned to this post.{{Cite web |title=How the Miami Herald's Steve Rothaus became an LGBT pioneer in mainstream journalism |url=https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/miami_herald_steve_rothaus_lgbt_coverage.php |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en}} After more than 33 years with the paper, Rothaus retired in 2019 as part of a buyout offer made to 450 employees.{{Cite web |last=Parsley |first=Jason |title=Steve Rothaus Takes Buyout From Miami Herald |url=https://southfloridagaynews.com/Local/steve-rothaus-takes-buyout-from-miami-herald.html |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=southfloridagaynews.com |language=en-gb}}

File:Miami Herald building.jpg in the Arts & Entertainment District of Downtown Miami; the paper moved from its waterfront headquarters in 2013 to a location in suburban Doral.{{update after|2014|1|1}} The Herald building was demolished in 2014.]]

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In 2002, the Miami Herald launched its own Home & Design magazine (created by Sarah Harrelson).{{Cite web |last=Mendelsohn |first=Meredith |date=2018-03-02 |title='Cultured' Mag Founder Takes Us Inside Her Home and Her Mini Media Empire |url=https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/sarah-harrelson/ |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=1stDibs Introspective |language=en}} In 2003, the Miami Herald and El Universal of Mexico City created an international joint venture, and in 2004 they together launched The Herald Mexico, a short-lived English-language newspaper for readers in Mexico. Its final issue was published in May 2007.

On July 27, 2005, former Miami city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Herald{{'}}s headquarters and phoned Herald columnist Jim DeFede, one of several telephone conversations that the two had had during the day, to say that he had a package for DeFede. He then asked a security officer to tell his (Teele's) wife Stephanie that he loved her, before pulling out a gun and committing suicide.{{cite news|last=Carlson|first=Coralie|title=Former Miami commissioner Teele is dead, police say|url=http://staugustine.com/stories/072805/sta_3230330.shtml|access-date=July 30, 2017|work=St. Augustine Record|agency=Associated Press|date=July 28, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730112620/http://staugustine.com/stories/072805/sta_3230330.shtml|archive-date=July 30, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} This happened the day the Miami New Times, a weekly newspaper, published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs, including allegations that he had had sex and used cocaine with a transsexual prostitute.

The day before committing suicide, Teele had had another telephone conversation with DeFede, who recorded this call without Teele's knowledge, which was illegal under Florida law. DeFede admitted to the Herald{{'}}s management that he had taped the call. Although the paper used quotes from the tape in its coverage, DeFede was fired the next day for violating the paper's code of ethics, and he was likely guilty of a felony.

Many journalists and readers of the Herald disagreed with the decision to fire rather than suspend DeFede, arguing that it had been made in haste and that the punishment was disproportionate to the offense. 528 journalists, including about 200 current and former Herald staffers, called on the Herald to reinstate DeFede, but the paper's management refused to back down. The state attorney's office later declined to file charges against the columnist, holding that the potential violation was "without a (living) victim or a complainant".{{cite web|title=Miami Code Violations on the Rise|url=http://www.codeviolationcenter.com/2016/01/27/miami-code-violations-on-the-rise/|access-date=March 25, 2016|website=Code Violation Center|date=January 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407193320/http://www.codeviolationcenter.com/2016/01/27/miami-code-violations-on-the-rise/|archive-date=April 7, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

On September 8, 2006, the Miami Herald{{'}}s president Jesús Díaz Jr. fired three journalists because they had allegedly been paid by the United States government to work for anti-Cuba propaganda TV and radio channels. The three were Pablo Alfonso, Wilfredo Cancio Isla and Olga Connor.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5329394.stm|title=US 'paid anti-Cuba journalists'|publisher=BBC News|date=September 9, 2006|access-date=September 9, 2006}} Less than a month later, responding to pressure from the Cuban community in Miami, Díaz resigned after reinstating the fired journalists, saying that "policies prohibiting such behavior were ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years". Nevertheless, he continued to state that such payments, especially if made from organs of the state, violate the principles of journalistic independence.{{cite news|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pcherald04oct04,0,1401914.story?coll=sfla-news-palm|title=Herald Publisher Resigns|work=Sun‑Sentinel|first1=Vanessa|last1=Bauzá|first2=Madeline|last2=Baró Diaz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022153333/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-10-04/news/0610030659_1_herald-s-spanish-language-sister-nuevo-cuban|archive-date=October 22, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} At least seven other journalists who did not work at the Herald, namely Miguel Cossio, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Juan Manuel Cao, Ariel Remos, Omar Claro, Helen Aguirre Ferre, Paul Crespo, and Ninoska Perez-Castellón, were also paid for programs on Radio Martí or TV Martí,{{cite news|url=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15466239.htm|title=10 Miami journalists take U.S. pay|work=Miami Herald|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103151514/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15466239.htm|archive-date=January 3, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} both financed by the government of the United States through the Broadcasting Board of Governors, receiving a total of between {{US$|link=yes}}15,000 and {{US$}}175,000 since 2001.

In May 2011, the paper announced it had sold {{convert|14|acre}} of Biscayne Bayfront land surrounding its headquarters in the Arts & Entertainment District of Downtown Miami for $236{{nbsp}}million, to a Malaysian resort developer, Genting Malaysia Berhad. McClatchy announced that the Herald and El Nuevo Herald would be moving to another location by 2013.{{cite news|title=Miami Herald parent sells land for $236 million; newspaper operations unaffected|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/27/2238011/miami-herald-parent-sells-land.html|date=May 27, 2011|first=Douglas|last=Hanks|archive-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828142637/http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/27/2238011/miami-herald-parent-sells-land.html|work=Miami Herald|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} In May 2013, the paper moved to a new building in suburban Doral.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/miami-herald-completes-move-from-downtown-miami/2020813/?amp|title=Miami Herald completes move from downtown Miami|date=May 17, 2013|work=Miami Herald|access-date=May 17, 2013}} The old building was demolished in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/demolition-begins-on-miami-herald-building-photos-6537154|title=Demolition Begins on Miami Herald Building (Photos)|newspaper=Miami New Times|date=2014-04-28|accessdate=2023-01-09}}

In November 2018, the Herald broke the story that "in 2007, despite substantial evidence that corroborated [female teenagers'] stories of [sexual] abuse by [Jeffrey] Epstein, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, signed off on a secret deal for the multimillionaire, one that ensured he would never spend a day in prison." Thus, the full extent of Epstein's crimes and his collaborators remained hidden and the victims unaware of this arrangement.{{cite news |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221897990.html |author=Julie K. Brown, Aaron Albright |title=Perversion of Justice| publisher=Miami Herald |date=November 28, 2018 |access-date=November 29, 2018}} In July 2019, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking dozens of minors between 2002 and 2005; reporting at the time noted how the Herald brought public attention to accusations against Epstein.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-source|title=Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors|last=Siegel|first=Pervaiz Shallwani{{!}}Kate Briquelet{{!}}Harry|date=2019-07-06|access-date=2019-07-07|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-sex-trafficking.html|title=Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Long Accused of Molesting Minors, Is Charged|last1=Mazzei|first1=Patricia|date=2019-07-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-07-07|last2=Rashbaum|first2=William K.|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/media/miami-herald-epstein.html|title=The Jeffrey Epstein Case Was Cold, Until a Miami Herald Reporter Got Accusers to Talk|last=Hsu|first=Tiffany|date=2019-07-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-07-10|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

On December 17, 2019, it was announced the Miami Herald would move to a six-days-a-week format.{{Cite web|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article238480738.html|title=The Miami Herald is replacing Saturday print edition with expanded Friday, Sunday papers|last=Aminda Marqués González|date=December 17, 2019|website=miamiherald.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229221922/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article238480738.html|archive-date=December 29, 2019|access-date=February 15, 2020}}

On January 21, 2020, it was announced that the Miami Herald would close its Doral printing plant and move its printing and packaging operations to the South Florida Sun Sentinel's printing facilities in Deerfield Beach. The Herald stopped printing its own editions as of April 26, 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article239510943.html|title=Miami Herald to close production plant, move printing operations to Broward County|newspaper=Miami Herald|date=January 21, 2020|access-date=May 28, 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-herald-layoffs-will-affect-70-workers-as-newspaper-closes-printing-plant-11453685|title=The Miami Herald Cuts 70 Jobs and Closes Its Printing Plant|newspaper=Miami New Times|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=May 28, 2020}}

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The Miami Herald sponsors several community involvement projects, such as those detailed below.

The Wish Book program lets community members who are suffering from hardships ask for help from the paper's readers. Wishes have included asking for donations to buy medical equipment for a sick child, help with renovations to make a home wheelchair-accessible, monetary donations to an impoverished family dealing with cancer treatments, and help to an elderly resident wanting to learn how to use a computer. Readers may donate to specific causes or to the program at large.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

The Herald also co-sponsors spelling bees and athletic awards in South Florida. {{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

The "Tropic" section and its columnist Dave Barry run the Herald Hunt, a unique annual puzzlehunt in the Miami area.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the most highly regarded student awards programs in the United States. The Awards program recognizes outstanding individuals and leaders who have maintained good grades and have applied their knowledge and talents to contribute service to their schools and communities. The Silver Knight Awards program was instituted at the Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight, past publisher of The Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1968|title=1968 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists - The Pulitzer Prizes|access-date=May 28, 2020}}

The program is open to high school seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA (unweighted) in public, charter, private, and parochial schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Students may be recognized in one of 15 categories: Art, Athletics, Business, Digital and Interactive (previously New Media), Drama, English and Literature, General Scholarship, Journalism, Mathematics, Music and Dance, Science, Social Science, Speech, Vocational-Technical, and World Languages. Each school may only nominate one student per category.

A panel of independent judges appointed by the Miami Herald for each category interviews the nominees in that category. Each panel selects one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in its category for each of the two counties (30 Silver Knights and 90 Honorable Mentions each year). The honorees are revealed during the Silver Knight Awards ceremony, televised locally from Miami's James L. Knight Center.{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/site-services/miami-herald-events/silver-knight/article1930302.html|title=Silver Knight: Qualifications & Nomination Process|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328211726/http://www.miamiherald.com/site-services/miami-herald-events/silver-knight/article1930302.html|archive-date=March 28, 2016|newspaper=Miami Herald|date=October 29, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/site-services/miami-herald-events/silver-knight/article1930300.html|title=What is a Silver Knight?|date=October 29, 2008|newspaper=Miami Herald|access-date=October 17, 2016}} In 2020, Silver Knights received a $2,000 scholarship, a Silver Knight statue, an AAdvantage 25,000-mile travel certificate and a medallion (from sponsor American Airlines). Honorable Mentions each received a $500 scholarship and an engraved plaque.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 awards ceremony was live-streamed on May 28 from a video studio at the Miami Herald's newsroom; the nominees attended via Zoom video conference.{{cite news|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article243058181.html|title=Silver Knights are extraordinary. The ceremony honoring them was anything but ordinary.|newspaper=Miami Herald|date=May 28, 2020|access-date=May 28, 2020}}

The Silver Knight Awards have been given in Miami-Dade County since 1959 and in Broward County since 1984. Silver Knight Awards were given to Palm Beach County students from 1985 through 1990.{{cite news|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/site-services/miami-herald-events/silver-knight/article1928928.html|title=Silver Knight success stories: Where are they now?|newspaper=Miami Herald|date=May 6, 2007|access-date=May 28, 2020}} The program is sponsored by organizations with ties to South Florida; the cash awards have been made possible over the years in part by the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.

Miami Herald Media Company, which owns the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, is headquartered in Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

The previous headquarters, One Herald Plaza, were located on a {{convert|14|acre|ha|adj=on}} plot in Biscayne Bay, Miami. This facility opened in March 1963. In 2011 the Genting Group, a Malaysian company, offered to pay the Miami Herald Media Company $236{{nbsp}}million for the current headquarters property. The company began scouting for a new headquarters location after finalizing the sale.{{cite web|url=http://www.affordablemoversus.com/Movers/Florida/Moving-Company-in-Miami.html|title=The Miami Herald Moving Project|publisher=The Movers US Group|date=October 27, 2011|access-date=July 30, 2017}} The then president and publisher of the media company, David Landsberg, stated that it was not necessary at that point to be located in the city center, and remaining there would be too expensive. The newspaper moved to its current Doral headquarters in 2013. On April 28, 2014, demolition began on the building on Biscayne Bay between the MacArthur and Venetian causeways.{{cite news|title=Demolition begins on former Miami Herald bayfront building|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/28/4086172/demolition-begins-on-former-miami.html|access-date=April 29, 2014|work=Miami Herald|date=April 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712022806/http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/28/4086172/demolition-begins-on-former-miami.html|archive-date=July 12, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

In a later period it was headquartered in Doral, Florida."[http://www.miamiherald.com/contact-us/ Contact Us]." Miami Herald. Retrieved January 24, 2014. "The Miami Herald 3511 NW 91 Ave. Miami, FL 33172" - While the address says "Miami, FL", the location is actually in Doral. See [https://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/maps/municipalities.pdf this map of Miami-Dade County municipalities] and [https://www.cityofdoral.com/all-departments/planning-and-zoning/comprehensive-plan-future-land-use-map.pdf the City of Doral land use map], compare with the full address. [https://web.archive.org/web/19961031170034/http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/annexation/annexation_FAQ.html As seen from this City of Houston FAQ], the U.S. Postal Service assigns city names in addresses based on convenience and not on municipal boundaries.Beasley, Adam. "[https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article1952116.html Our new home: Miami Herald's Doral headquarters reflects a modern reality]." Miami Herald. Tuesday June 4, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140203032601/http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/04/3431189/miami-heralds-new-doral-home-reflects.html Archived] from the original on February 3, 2014 at the Wayback Machine It is located in a two‑story, {{convert|160000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} building that had been the U.S. Southern Command center. The newspaper used {{convert|110000|sqft|sqm}} of space for office purposes. In 2013 there were 650 people working there. The newspaper had purchased land adjacent to the headquarters to build the {{convert|119000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} printing plant. The newspaper, working during the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida, was to close its Doral offices in August 2020 and later relocate to a new facility after a period of remote work.{{cite web|last=Marqués González|first=Aminda|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article243391186.html|title=Miami Herald is moving out of its office building in Doral|newspaper=Miami Herald|date=2020-06-09|accessdate=2023-01-09}} The remote work began prior to the closure of the office, which did occur. The publication sold the Doral office in September 2021, getting $27.3 million.{{cite web|last=Dinkova|first=Lidia|url=https://therealdeal.com/miami/2021/09/29/former-miami-herald-el-nuevo-herald-office-building-in-doral-trades-for-27m/|title=Former Miami Herald, el Nuevo Herald office building in Doral trades for $27M|work=The Real Deal|date=2021-09-29|accessdate=2023-01-09}}

In 2023 the newspaper announced its new headquarters would be in the Waterford Business District.

The Miami Herald has received 24 Pulitzer Prizes:

• 2023: Miami Herald Editorial Board wins Pulitzer for the "Broken Promises" series on civic letdowns.{{cite news|url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article275183156.html|title=Miami Herald Editorial Board wins Pulitzer for 'Broken Promises' series on civic letdowns|newspaper=Miami Herald|first=Jeff|last=Kleinman|date=3 June 2023}}
• 2022: Breaking News Reporting, staff, "For its urgent yet sweeping coverage of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex."{{Cite web |title=The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-miami-herald |website=Pulitzer}}
• 2017: Editorial Cartooning, Jim Morin, "For editorial cartoons that delivered sharp perspectives through flawless artistry, biting prose and crisp wit."{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jim-morin-0|title=The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Editorial Cartooning|website=www.pulitzer.org|access-date=July 30, 2017}}
• 2017: Explanatory Reporting, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and Miami Herald, "For the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens. (Moved by the Board from the International Reporting category, where it was entered.)"{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/international-consortium-investigative-journalists-mcclatchy-and-miami-herald|title=The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting|website=www.pulitzer.org|access-date=July 30, 2017}}
• 2009: Breaking News Photography, Patrick Farrell, "for his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti."
• 2007: Local Reporting, Debbie Cenziper, "for reports on waste, favoritism and lack of oversight at the Miami housing agency that resulted in dismissals, investigations and prosecutions." In 2007, Cenziper's investigation was featured in the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports in an episode entitled "Money For Nothing."
• 2004: Commentary, Leonard Pitts Jr., "for his fresh, vibrant columns that spoke, with both passion and compassion, to ordinary people on often divisive issues."
• 2001: Breaking News Reporting, "for its coverage of the seizure of Elián González by federal agents."
• 1999: Investigative Reporting, staff, "for its detailed reporting that revealed pervasive voter fraud in a city mayoral election that was subsequently overturned."
• 1996: Editorial Cartooning, Jim Morin
• 1993: Meritorious Public Service, staff, "for coverage that not only helped readers cope with Hurricane Andrew's devastation but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction.";
• 1993: Commentary, Liz Balmaseda, "for her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami."
• 1991: Spot News Reporting, staff, "for stories profiling a local cult leader Yahweh ben Yahweh, his followers, and their links to several area murders."
• 1988: Commentary, Dave Barry, "for his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns."
• 1988: Feature Photography, Michel du Cille, "for photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack."
• 1987: National Reporting, staff, "for its exclusive reporting and persistent coverage of the U.S.-Iran-Contra connection."
• 1986: Spot News Photography, Michel du Cille and Carol Guzy, for their photographs of the devastation caused by the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia.
• 1986: General Reporting, Edna Buchanan, for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting.
• 1983: Editorial Writing, the editorial board, "for its campaign against the detention of illegal Haitian immigrants by federal officials."
• 1981: International Reporting, Shirley Christian, "for her dispatches from Central America."
• 1980: Feature Writing, Madeleine Blais, "for 'Zepp's Last Stand.{{'"}}
• 1976: General Reporting, Gene Miller, for his persistent and courageous reporting over {{frac|8|1|2}} years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida.
• 1967: Specialized Reporting, Gene Miller, for investigative reporting that helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.
• 1951: Meritorious Public Service, staff, "for crime reporting during the year."

In the 1960s under the leadership of Women's Page editor Marie Anderson and assistant women's page editor Marjorie Paxson the Herald won four Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards (then called the Penney-Missouri Awards) for General Excellence. The section won the award in 1960, the year of the awards' inauguration.{{cite web |last1=Harper |first1=Kimberly |title=Marie Anderson |url=https://shsmo.org/manuscripts/descriptions/womenmedia/essays/names/a/anderson/ |publisher=State Historical Society of Missouri |access-date=26 December 2018 |archive-date=January 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117013406/https://shsmo.org/manuscripts/descriptions/womenmedia/essays/names/a/anderson/ |url-status=dead }} In 1961, it won again, and the program director asked Anderson to sit the 1962 awards out. In 1963 the paper took second place, and in 1964 another first, and the paper was barred from competing for the next five years. In 1969 it won another first. Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere, writing in the scholarly journal Florida Historical Quarterly, said Anderson "personified" the Penney-Missouri competition's goals.{{cite journal |last1=Voss |first1=Kimberly Wilmot |last2=Speere |first2=Lance |title=A Women's Page Pioneer: Marie Anderson and Her Influence at the Miami Herald and Beyond |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=398–421 |jstor=30150079 |year=2007 }}

• Jeanne Voltz{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2002-01-16 |title=Jeanne Voltz, 81; Past Editor of Times' Food Section |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-16-me-22953-story.html |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Jeanne Appleton Voltz 1920-2002 |url=https://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2077 |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=University of Alabama |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Voss |first=Kimberly Wilmot |date=April 2013 |title=Food Journalism or Culinary Anthropology? Re-evaluating Soft News and the Influence of Jeanne Voltz's Food Section in the Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08821127.2012.10677826 |journal=American Journalism |language=en |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=66–91 |doi=10.1080/08821127.2012.10677826 |s2cid=151228187 |issn=0882-1127|url-access=subscription }}

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