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The New York Times announced it is adding two co-hosts to its popular “Daily” program, which airs Monday through Friday on WLRN, South Florida’s NPR affiliate, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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Oana Martisca's documentary News Without a Newsroom uses archival footage from Miami's news industry and pairs it with interviews with journalists and media experts to trace where it is heading. It will premiere at the Miami Film Festival on Friday.
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The federal judge's order also bars the Agency for Global Media from terminating grant funding for its broadcast outlets, including Doral-based Radio Martí.
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With a $3 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the foundations announced Monday the creation of Press Forward South Florida, “a new initiative to ensure residents have the information they need to make decisions about their lives — no matter where they live or what language they speak at home.”
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Remembering Jill Tracey: Miami's unforgettable radio star. Community bids farewell to beloved leaderA flood of memories and heartfelt tributes filled Wright & Young Funeral Home in Miami last week, as the community gathered to honor the life of Jill Tracey, the beloved radio personality, community leader, and longtime voice of HOT 105 FM.
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Tracey, a popular voice in South Florida radio for more than three decades, was also running for the District 2 seat on the Hollywood city commission at the time of her death.
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Florida Atlantic University’s MediaLab@FAU, news content partner with WLRN, will be getting a $100,000 grant from Press Forward, a national philanthropic initiative “to close persistent coverage gaps” in local communities.
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Monday's ruling comes just days before jury selection is set to begin in a court battle between Florida-based Smartmatic and cable network Newsmax.
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SundialSouth Florida journalist Brittany Wallman, who won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Parkland school shooting for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, is now working as an investigative journalist for the Miami Herald.
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“This is an effort to rebuild hyper-local news in an underserved community," says Tony Winton, who founded the non-profit Miami Fourth Estate and is Editor-in-Chief of the Key Biscayne Independent. He announced his organization is launching news coverage of Liberty City with a full-time reporter, beginning next summer.
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A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that Black news consumers think local reporters do a better job of covering Black communities than the national media. Black publishers in South Florida have reasons why.
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Movie and television producer Lee Caplin, who with his wife, has donated $10 million to the newly named Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media at Florida International University, said he chose to contribute to FIU because of its diverse students and faculty, and to fund the training of the next generation of journalists at a time when local journalism is in crisis.