South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Sun Sentinel

The March 21, 2009 front page of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Tribune Company
Founded	1910
Headquarters	200 East Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 US
Circulation	226,591 Daily 319,103 Sunday[1]
ISSN	0744-8139
Official website	sun-sentinel.com

The Sun Sentinel, owned by the Tribune Company, is the main daily newspaper of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., and all of Broward County, but circulates throughout all of South Florida.

Overview

For many years, the Sun Sentinel exclusively targeted Broward County. However, it expanded its coverage to all of South Florida (including the Miami-Dade and Palm Beach areas) in the late 1990s. In the latter area The Palm Beach Post is the main rival of the Sun Sentinel.

The Sun Sentinel emphasizes providing local news, through its Community News and Local sections. It has a daily circulation of 226,591 and a Sunday circulation of 319,103.^[1] Although the paper has not won a Pulitzer Prize, it has been a "nominated finalist" numerous times, including its 2005 coverage of Hurricane Wilma and an investigation into the Federal Emergency Management Agency's mismanagement of hurricane aid. (The latter investigation was featured in the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports in an episode entitled "Crisis Mismanagement.") It also produced a significant contribution to information graphics in the form of News Illustrated, a weekly full-page graphic that has received more than 30 international awards.

The Sun Sentinel publishes various websites including SunSentinel.com, SouthFlorida.com, SouthFloridaParenting.com, CityLinkMix.com, and TeenlinkSouthFlorida.com. Its website has news video from two South Florida television stations: West Palm Beach's NBC affiliate WPTV and WSFL-TV, the Miami and Fort Lauderdale CW affiliate.

History

The Sun Sentinel traces its history to the 1910 founding of the Fort Lauderdale Weekly Herald, the first newspaper on record in the Fort Lauderdale area, and the Everglades Breeze, a locally printed paper founded in 1911, which promoted itself as "Florida's great Farm, Truck and Fruit Growing paper."^[2] In 1925, the Everglades Breeze was renamed the Sentinel. That same year, two Ohio publishers bought both the Sentinel and the Herald, consolidating the newspapers into a daily publication called the Daily News and Evening Sentinel.^[3] In 1926, Horace and Tom Stillwell purchased the paper. However, the devastation wrought by the 1926 Miami hurricane caused circulation to drop and, in 1929, Tom Stillwell sold the paper to the Gore Publishing Company, headed by R.H. Gore, Sr. By 1945, circulation of the Daily News and Evening Sentinel had climbed to 10,000.

In 1953, Gore Publishing changed the name of the paper to the Fort Lauderdale News and added a Sunday morning edition. In 1960, when the paper had a circulation of 60,000, Gore Publishing purchased the weekly Pompano Beach Sun. Reviving the "Sentinel" name it had discarded seven years earlier, Gore began publishing a new morning newspaper, the Pompano Sun-Sentinel. In 1963, the Tribune Company acquired Gore Publishing.^[4] In the 1970s, the two newspapers became known as the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel. In 1982, the two papers merged their editorial staffs,^[5] and the newspaper became known as the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In 2000, after expanding its coverage, the paper changed its name to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

In 2001, the Sun Sentinel opened its first full-time foreign bureau in Havana, Cuba. Shared with the Tribune Co., their Havana newsroom is the only permanent presence of any South Florida newspaper.

In 2002, the Sun Sentinel began publishing a Spanish weekly newspaper, El Sentinel. The newspaper is distributed free on Saturdays to Hispanic households in Broward and Palm Beach counties and is also available in racks in both counties. It is also available online at Elsentinel.com. In 2004, the paper won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for its coverage of health and human services in the state.

On August 17, 2008, the Sun Sentinel unveiled a redesigned layout, with larger graphics, more color, and a new large "S" logo. This is in tune with another Tribune newspaper (Orlando Sentinel), which redesigned its newspaper a few months previously, and created a brand synergy with Tribune sister operation and CW affiliate WSFL-TV (Channel 39), which relocated its operations to the Sun Sentinel offices in 2008 and adopted a logo matching the capital "S" in the new logo.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-29. 
2. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=s6sKAAAAIAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA119&ots=DR-6RccKWr&dq=%22everglades%20breeze%22%20newspaper&pg=RA1-PA119#v=onepage&q=&f=false The World To-day, Jan. 1911, p. 119
3. ^ Maucker, Earl (Oct. 29, 2000). "Paper's Reach Reflected In Nameplate Update". South Florida Sun Sentinel. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2000-10-29/news/0010270546_1_fort-lauderdale-sun-sentinel-nameplate-palm-beach-county. Retrieved 2010-03-25. 
4. ^ http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Tribune-Company-Company-History.html Tribune Company -- Company History
5. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14903240.html

External links

• Official site