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  The Paper
  
  Founded:
  First edition published Sept 15, 1903 (as The Miami Evening Record); renamed The Miami Herald on Dec. 1, 1910; acquired by John S. and James L. Knight in 1937
  
  Key Executives:
  Alberto Ibargüen
  Chairman
  Tom Fiedler
  Vice president and Executive Editor
  Kim Marcille
  General Manager, Herald.com
  Jesús Díaz
  General Manager, The Miami Herald
  Carlos Abaunza
  Vice president/Finance, Chief Financial Officer
  Robert Beatty
  General Counsel & Vice president/Public Affairs
  Richard Danze
  Vice president/Operations and Technology
  David Landsberg
  Vice president/Advertising
  César Mendoza
  Vice president/Circulation
  Sara Rosenberg
  Vice president/Consumer Marketing
  Donna Sasser
  Vice president/Broward Business Manager
  Willard Soper
  Vice president/Circulation and Custom Publishing
  Elissa Vanaver
  Vice president/Human Resources/Asst. to Publisher
  
  General Hiring Contact: Lorna Harding: 305-376-2885 or e-mail jobs@herald.com
  
  Distinction: Internationally recognized, prize-winning newspaper serving one of the most vibrant, diverse regions in America; has published the International Edition for readers in the Caribbean and Latin America since 1946, and in Mexico starting in 2002.
  
  Market: Miami-Fort Lauderdale is the nation's ninth-largest market. Serves South Florida's multi-ethnic population with increasing focus on the Americas, tourism, international trade and commerce.
  
  Primary Market: South Florida (Dade, Broward and Monroe counties)
  
  Customers: A million readers daily; 1.2 million Sunday in South Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America
  
  Reader Demographics: Daily readers: 53% are women; 56% are ages 25 to 54; 20% are college graduates, 33% have some college and 33% are high school graduates; 35% have household income higher than $50,000
  
  Site: An 800,000-square-foot plant on the edge of Biscayne Bay at the northeast fringe of downtown Miami
  
  Circulation: 312,109 daily; 429,221 Sunday
  
  Size: Averages 88 pages daily; 212 pages Sunday
  
  Single-Copy Sales: 27% daily; 15% Sunday
  
  Carrier Force: 1365 independent delivery agents or independent distributors
  
  Production: Goss Newsliner offset presses
  
  Technology: SII System 55, Howtek Colorscan for digital imaging; APS imagers; ads built on Macintosh; converted from IBM mainframe for business applications to a Hewlett-Packard 3000
  
  Color: Extensive use of color each day on section fronts and advertisements
  
  Employees: 2024
  
  Newsroom Staff:
  Reporters: 144
  Editors: 69
  Copy Editors: 69
  Photographers: 29
  Graphic Artists: 23
  Columnists: 12
  Critics: 6
  Editorial Specialists: 48
  News Assistants: 18
  News Reporter: 9
  Total Journalist Staff: 446
  
  Bureaus: Bogota; Managua; Tallahassee; Washington; Vero Beach; Key West; Hollywood
  
  Pulitzer Prizes: Winner of 17 Pulitzer Prizes:
  
  2001 -- Breaking news reporting, for coverage of Elián González's seizure by armed federal agents and the emotional aftermath of the pre-dawn raid
  1999 -- Investigative reporting, staff
  1996 -- Editorial cartooning, Jim Morin
  1993 -- Meritorious public service, staff; Commentary, Liz Balmaseda
  1991 -- Local spot news, staff
  1988 -- Commentary, Dave Barry; Feature photography, Michel duCille
  1987 -- National reporting, staff
  1986 -- Spot news photography, Michel duCille and Carol Guzy; General reporting, Edna Buchanan
  1983 -- Editorial writing, the editorial board
  1981 -- International reporting, Shirley Christian
  1980 -- Feature writing, Madeleine Blais
  1976 -- General reporting, Gene Miller
  1967 -- Special reporting, Gene Miller
  1951 -- Meritorious public service, staff
  
  Major Competitors: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel; eight major broadcast TV stations; numerous cable TV and radio stations; numerous weekly shoppers and community newspapers
  
  Creative Ventures: International Women's Show; Miami Herald Americas Conference; Making Money Conference; Aboard/HCP Destination and In-Flight Magazines (audience of 30 million frequent travelers); International Edition (a daily newspaper edited specifically for tourists in the Caribbean, printed by partner newspapers in the Caribbean and distributed through hotels)
  
  Special Publications: Business Monday; Street; Apartment Magazine; many themed special sections including Football Preview Section, Autoshow Section, Giving, The Hurricane Section, E-Commerce
  
  Well-known Newsroom Personalities: Columnists Liz Balmaseda; Dave Barry; Fred Grimm; Carl Hiaasen; Leonard Pitts Jr.; Edwin Pope; Robert L. Steinback; Ana Veciana-Suarez
  
  Community Involvement: Charles Whited Spirit of Excellence Awards; The Silver Knight Awards; Holiday Wish Book; Dade and Broward Spelling Bees; All-Dade/All-Broward Athletic Awards; Spirit of Excellence Awards
  
  Academic Sponsorships: Silver Knight scholarship program for outstanding high school seniors; Herald Spelling Bee; All-Dade/Broward Athletic Awards
  
  Employee Benefits:
  Personal: Medical (including prescriptions), dental and vision insurance for employee, dependents and same-sex domestic partners; Employee Assistance (mental health) Program for employee and dependents; voluntary long-term care policies for employee, spouse, parents and grandparents. Life insurance for employee and dependents; supplemental life insurance. Paid sick leave; short-term and long-term disability. Paid vacation and holidays. Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care; pension plan; 401(k) savings plan with company match; employees stock purchase plan. Other benefits include: on-site credit union, U.S. Savings Bonds purchase program, dry cleaning pickup/delivery, on-site ATM, full-service cafeteria at main downtown Miami facility, child care and elder care resource and referral services, on-site backup child care, flexible work scheduling, health fairs, flu shots, hypertension screening, aerobics classes, pregnancy testing, cholesterol and blood sugar checks, workstation ergonomic assessments, workers compensation case management and on-site physical rehab services, matching fund program for family crisis, discounted newspaper For specific information, visit the online Knight Ridder Benefits Resource Center.
  
  Professional: Tuition reimbursement and paid fellowships; skills training, including on-site computer training open to all employees, leadership training for supervisors and managers, diversity training for all new full-time employees, sexual harassment awareness and prevention training for managers, departmental on-the-job training, developmental opportunities on project task forces and employee committees, educational loans through the Knight Ridder loan program. Select employees are scheduled for training and development programs.
  
  Largest Advertisers: Burdines; Macy's; BrandsMart; Sears; BellSouth
  
  History: Launched in 1903 as the Evening Record and re-christened in 1910, The Miami Herald is South Florida’s oldest newspaper. Now one of the nation’s largest daily newspapers, The Herald endured the Florida boom and subsequent bust in the early 1920s, the devastating 1926 hurricane and the Great Depression. It flirted with receivership but regained financial stability in the 1930s.
  
  On October 15, 1937, John S. Knight, son of a noted Ohio newspaperman, bought The Herald from Frank B. Shutts. Knight became editor and publisher; his brother, James L. Knight, business manager. The Herald had 383 employees. In September 1942, a new city editor arrived to take charge of The Herald newsroom. Lee Hills rose to publisher of The Herald and eventually became chairman of the board of Knight-Ridder, Inc., a position he held until 1981. In 1950, The Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize for outstanding work in reporting on organized crime in Miami. Circulation was 176,000 daily; 204,000 Sunday.
  
  August 19, 1960, was a banner day in Herald history. Construction was begun on the present Herald building on Biscayne Bay, and a new employee, Alvah H. Chapman, started work as James Knight’s assistant. Chapman rose to become chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Knight-Ridder, Inc.
  
  On March 23-24, 1963, The Herald moved into its newly constructed building at One Herald Plaza without missing an edition.
  
  Today, The Herald is one of the nation’s great metropolitan daily newspapers. A winner of 16 Pulitzer Prizes, 10 since 1986, The Miami Herald is recognized as one of this country’s finest newspapers. The numerous Pulitzer Prizes and many other reporting, photography and editing awards it has received are testimony to The Herald’s journalistic quality and integrity.
  
  The Herald is owned by Knight-Ridder, an international communications company.
  
  The Community
  
  The Market: The Gateway to Latin America; multi-ethnic community with large Hispanic population; hemispheric headquarters for major multinationals, international trade, banking, tourism; cruise capital of the world
  
  Location: Southern tip of Florida peninsula; 181 air miles from Bahamas; three hours to Key West; four hours from Orlando
  
  Transportation: Miami International Airport; Fort Lauderdale International Airport; Port of Miami; Port Everglades; Metrorail/Metromover rapid transit; Tri-Rail
  
  City Population: 3.4 million in South Florida (Dade, Broward and Monroe counties)
  
  City Households: 1.3 million
  
  Household Growth Rate: 25% since 1980
  
  Ethnic Makeup: Designated Market Area (DMA) Adults: 45% non-Hispanic white; 38% Hispanic; 15% non-Hispanic black. Dade County Adults: Hispanic 58%; non-Hispanic white 23%; non-Hispanic black 16%. Dade County (1990 Census): Hispanic 49%; non-Hispanic white 30%; black 21%
  
  Education: 58% some college or more; 70% high school graduates
  
  Median Age: 36.7 years
  
  Average Income: $54,371
  
  Median Home Price: (two bedrooms) $108,400
  
  Median Rent: $708 a month
  
  Climate: Subtropical. Average temperature 76 degrees; average low 69 degrees; average high 83 degrees; average rainfall 58 inches
  
  Major Employers: Tourism; international trade and commerce; public schools; government; Publix; American Airlines; Jackson Memorial Hospital; University of Miami
  
  Major Retailers: Burdines; BrandsMart; Circuit City; Macy's; Dillard's
  
  Higher Learning: University of Miami; Florida International University; Florida Atlantic University; Florida Memorial College; Barry University; St. Thomas of Villanova University; Trinity College; Nova Southeastern University; Miami-Dade Community College; Broward Community College
  
  Culture: Local ballet, opera and symphony companies; wide spectrum of art museums, performing arts centers; several live theaters
  
  Sports: Florida Marlins (baseball); Miami Dolphins (football); Miami Heat (basketball); Florida Panthers (hockey); Miami Grand Prix; Doral-Ryder Open; Erickson Championship (pro tennis); college teams
  
  Major Annual Events: Orange Bowl Festival; Miami Film Festival; Calle Ocho; Miami Book Fair International; Coconut Grove Arts Festival; Fort Lauderdale Boat Parade; Las Olas Arts Festival; The Herald's America's Conference; The Herald's Financial Conference; Air & Sea Show
  
  Tourist Attractions: South Beach and other beaches; Little Havana; Florida Keys; Everglades; MetroZoo; Seaquarium; Vizcaya
  
  Recreation: Year-round water sports; sailing; hiking; biking; fishing
  
  Night Life: South Beach; Coconut Grove; Bayside; Las Olas Boulevard (Fort Lauderdale)
  
  Claim to Fame: Art Deco; stone crabs; Orange Bowl Festival; cafe Cubano; cruise capital of the world; Little Havana and Little Haiti enclaves
  
  Famous Citizens: Don Shula; entertainers Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Cher, Julio Iglesias, Nestor Torres, Rosie O'Donnell, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin
  
  Area Information:
  Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
  Omni International Complex
  1601 Biscayne Blvd.
  Miami, FL 33132
  305-350-7700
  www.GreaterMiami.com
  
  For recent issues of the paper, contact:
  The Miami Herald
  One Herald Plaza
  Miami, FL 33132-1693
  305-350-2111
  1-800-HERALD5