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The Miami Herald has won 24 Pulitzer Prizes. The first came in 1951 for crime reporting, and the most recent was awarded in 2023 to the editorial board for coverage of failures by Florida public officials.
The Miami Herald published its first edition on the 15th of September 1903, under the name the Miami Evening Record. It was reorganized and moved to Miami by Frank B. Stoneman. Frank B. Shutts renamed it the Miami Herald on the 1st of December 1910, after acquiring it through a loan from Henry Flagler.
The Miami Herald won two landmark Supreme Court press freedom cases. The first, Pennekamp v. Florida (1946), overturned a contempt finding against the paper for criticizing a county court. The second, Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo (1974), struck down a Florida law that would have forced newspapers to print political rebuttals.
In November 2018, the Miami Herald broke the story that U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta had signed a secret deal in 2007 allowing Jeffrey Epstein to avoid prison despite substantial evidence of his abuse of female teenagers. The Herald's reporting brought renewed public attention to the case, and in July 2019 Epstein was charged with sex trafficking dozens of minors between 2002 and 2005.
The Miami Herald sold its 14-acre headquarters on Biscayne Bay in 2011 to Malaysian resort developer Genting Malaysia Berhad for $236 million. The building, known as One Herald Plaza, was demolished beginning the 28th of April 2014, after the paper relocated to Doral in 2013.
The Miami Herald's average daily printed circulation was 440,225 as recently as 1998. By August 2024 it had fallen to 12,623. The paper stopped printing its own editions on the 26th of April 2020, moving production to the South Florida Sun Sentinel's facilities in Deerfield Beach.