The Miami News
The Miami News was the premier evening paper in Miami . Founded on May 15, 1896 as The Miami Metropolis , publication was discontinued on December 31, 1988.
Pulitzer Awards
- 1939 - Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the Miami City Commission re-election campaign
- 1959 - Pulitzer Prize for Domestic Reporting , Howard Van Smith , for a series of articles that focused on public awareness of the deplorable conditions in a migrant labor camp in Floria, which revealed the 4,000 workers stranded in the camp generous support was given, drawing attention to the national problem posed by the 1.5 million migrant workers.
- 1963 - Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Coverage to Hal Hendrix , for his sustained coverage which revealed at an early stage that the Soviet Union was installing missile launchers in Cuba and stationing large numbers of MiG-21s there.
- 1966 Pulitzer Prize for editorial caricatures to caricaturist Don Wright for "You Mean You Were Bluffing?"
- 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Caricature to Don Wright
Web links
- Miami Metropolis , freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Daily Miami Metropolis , from 1904-7 freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library
- Miami Daily News , from 1929 freely available with full text and full page images in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library