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McMullan returned few of the compliments. Instead, his last week was mostly business as usual. He worried out loud about why the Herald had not editorialized harder for increases in the state education budget, and felt badly let down by a recent series on zoning concessions. "The trouble was we didn't send anyone to jail," he lamented. "We're proud of explanatory journalism these days, but I think a couple of convictions is a wonderful way to explain the problem." In the final installment of his regular Sunday editorial-page column, McMullan skipped through a few farewell...
...drives to break 80 on the golf course and master his new IBM Personal Computer, a staff going-away gift. With a similar determination to preserve integrity in private and public, he insisted that the suicide in 1976 of his daughter, a psychiatric nurse, be fully reported in the Herald. Both the paper's staff and knowledgeable professional observers generally credit McMullan with most of the major innovations that have brought the Herald three Pulitzer Prizes in the past four years, including this year's award for its editorial crusade against the Haitian detention camps in Miami...
...expanded the Herald's domestic and foreign bureau system to its present bases in Atlanta, New York City, Washington, Jerusalem, Peking, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro and El Salvador, as well as adding a correspondent on Latin America based in Washington. The Herald's coverage of Central America is generally lauded as alert and thorough. The paper was among the first to launch a weekly business and financial supplement as well as a Sunday magazine, Tropic...
McMullan was also instrumental in expanding the Herald's staff to reflect the strong ethnic diversity of Miami's community: without a single black staffer 15 years ago, the Herald now has 20 black reporters, a black editor and a black columnist. Even greater strides have been made toward the city's Latin population. The Herald is the only large metropolitan newspaper in the country to publish a daily Spanish edition (circ. 66,000). There are two Latin columnists and 40 staff members, including a member of the editorial board, to help cover the city...
...causes of Miami's recurrent racial disturbances, police brutality and civilian review issues, does not regret McMullan's departure. Says he: "It will be like missing a sore tooth." Despite the paper's editorial excellence and its emphasis on local community reporting, many Miamians resent the Herald's power and tone of parental authority, often viewing it as an extension of McMullan's own abrasive personality...