Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cities are particularly well served by a journalistic phenomenon that is sadly in decline: local daily competition. In Dallas, the Morning News (circ. 336,000) and Times Herald (circ. 270,000), both of which were somewhat listless until a few years ago, have spurred each other to make the city one of the best covered in the country. In Detroit, similarly happy results have come from the face-off between the Free Press (circ. 635,000) and News (circ...
...Miami Herald...
...more than enough news in south Florida to occupy any newspaper: a restive black community, an assertively bilingual Cuban population, an infestation of gun-wielding drug dealers, banks that accept large deposits in cash, a police department that seems prone to provoking charges of brutality. The Miami Herald covers its parlous territory as thoroughly and fearlessly as any other city daily, whether in exposing racial discrimination in housing or in probing terrorist acts by anti-Castro Cuban exiles. But it does more. Its reportage of Latin America, aided by bureaus in Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador and, soon, Managua...
...were being subordinated to the desires of developers, the paper's unyielding executive editor John McMullan lamented that the articles did not result in indictments. Said he: "We are proud of explanatory journalism, but a couple of convictions is a wonderful way to explain the problem." Yet the Herald is compassionate: Associate Editor Gene Miller has won two Pulitzer Prizes for investigative reporting in murder cases, including one in 1976 that resulted in the freeing of two innocent men convicted of a slaying...
After McMullan retired last July, some observers claimed that the Herald went soft. His powers were divided between Publisher Richard Capen, 49, who favors a less accusatory approach, and Executive Editor Heath Meriwether, 40, who spends much of his time discussing journalistic ethics in columns and at public meetings. Coverage is increasingly featurish; staff members joke that they sometimes produce "Jell-O journalism," with the main point of a story buried beneath paragraphs of scene setting...