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Dave Hyde, the Sun Sentinel, and the Crap State of South Florida Sports Journalism

By Chris Joseph Fri., Feb. 1 2013 at 11:44 AM
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The Sun Sentinel's Dave Hyde picked the wrong damned time to coddle Dan Marino.

Five days before the New York Post broke the Marino love-child story, Hyde wrote a piece on the Dolphins quarterback's work with autism.

And that's cool. However, the first paragraph in that column read thusly:

People always lament how sports stars aren't heroes like they used to be. Lance Armstrong lies. Tiger Woods stains his name. The entire Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is at issue.

But what if everyone's telling the wrong stories?

Herp derp.

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Miami Herald Paywall Coming Later This Year

By Stefan Kamph Fri., Jul. 27 2012 at 11:46 AM
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In the red.
Details are sparse right now, but the Miami Herald's parent company, McClatchy Newspapers, says it plans "to roll out a metered plan" later this year.

Paywalls will control access to web and mobile content and can be bundled with print delivery subscriptions. The company will start with paywalls at five of its papers in the third quarter of this year -- which could be any day now, actually -- and at the rest of its papers in the fourth quarter.

Once that is complete, the Palm Beach Post will be the only South Florida daily without a paywall, for now.

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The Sun-Sentinel Is Now Owned by JPMorgan Chase and Some Hedge Funds; God Help Us All

By Stefan Kamph Mon., Jul. 16 2012 at 7:16 AM
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Previously: What if New Sun-Sentinel Owners Decide to Sell?

If you hadn't noticed, it's a hell of a time to be in the newspaper business. Last month, we wondered aloud about the imminent sale of the Tribune newspaper company -- which includes our local beacon of truth and coupons, the Sun-Sentinel -- to a bunch of banks and hedge funds.

Last week, it was announced that the sale went through, and the Sun-Sentinel has some new owners: JPMorgan Chase; Oaktree Capital Management; and Angelo, Gordon & Co.

Could it mean the end of the road for our local paper? Investors around the country are buying and selling newspapers like hot potatoes as they lose millions of dollars in value every month.

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Good-bye, Eric Barton. We'll miss ya.

By New Times staff Wed., Jun. 20 2012 at 9:43 AM
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Eric Barton: We'll miss him.

Starting today, New Times Broward Palm Beach has a new editor. 


Except he is the same as the old one. Kind of.

Chuck Strouse, who edited this newspaper from 2000 to 2005, will return in the dual role as top gun at Miami New Times and New Times/Broward Palm Beach. 

Eric Barton, who started at New Times BPB as a staff writer, became managing editor of The Pitch in Kansas City and then returned home, will depart. 



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What if the Sun-Sentinel's New Owners Decide to Sell the Paper?

By Stefan Kamph Mon., Jun. 18 2012 at 6:55 AM
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For a long time, South Florida has been a three-newspaper land. The Palm Beach Post, the Sun-Sentinel, and the Miami Herald all overlapped to some degree, giving this stranger-than-fiction region a little competition in the newspaper business. That sets us apart from the rest of the country, but it's all started to change recently, as the papers run one another's material and cut reporting jobs and circulation.

This month the Newhouse family announced that it's going to cut the print edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune down to just three days a week, and move the reporting online. Around half the newsroom was fired last week. They made even more drastic cuts at the three papers they own in Alabama, also going down to three days a week. These steps toward liquidating the paper product are extreme, but they're a sign of a national phenomenon. Nobody knows how to make money in news anymore. That includes the Tribune Company, owner of eight daily papers including our own Broward rag, the Sun-Sentinel.

The Tribune papers are in the process of being sold to a consortium of banks and hedge funds, reports Reuters media critic Jack Shafer. 


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Department of Juvenile Justice Sends New Times' Records to TV Station

By Lisa Rab Thu., May 31 2012 at 6:07 AM
Categories: For the Kids, Journalismo
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The state Department of Juvenile Justice does not have a stellar track record of competency or efficiency. When a prison guard was twice accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy at a Pembroke Pines juvie lockup, DJJ didn't hear about the incidents until months after they allegedly occurred. Next, supervisors at a juvenile jail in West Palm Beach allowed an 18-year-old inmate with head injuries to die slowly and painfully while guards refused to call 911. 

Yes, when it comes to the abuse of troubled kids, it seems the state of Florida does little more than shrug. Want to understand why? Try asking DJJ to handle some paperwork.

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Wanted: Summer, Fall Journalism Interns

By Rich Abdill Thu., May 24 2012 at 8:58 AM
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach is looking for writing interns for both the summer and fall semesters. Here's your chance, truth-speakers and blog-typers, to get some genuine newsroom experience, write about pretty much anything you want, and drink as much free coffee as you can fit into your face.

Requirements: Be a college student, get college credit for writing, and be able to write, as my editor put it, "a damned good blog item."

There aren't any major guidelines outside of those, and your help would be appreciated on our food, music, or news blogs. Let us know what you want to do.

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WANTED: Summer and Fall 2012 Photography Interns

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 18 2012 at 10:02 AM
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HE just got hired. What about you?
Yo. Picture-takers. My bosses want to give you a gig:

Calling all photo students! New Times Broward-Palm Beach is recruiting photography students for its Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 Photo Intern Program.

By "student," we do not mean "a student of life." There's no cash offered with this gig, only credits. Don't bother applying if this doesn't suit you.

Still interested? Read on!

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Reporting on a Belle Glade Murder: How We Got the Story

By Lisa Rab Wed., Mar. 21 2012 at 12:43 PM
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​Don't walk around after dark, friends warned me. Stay away from certain neighborhoods.
Outsiders who have not spent much time in Belle Glade have an image of the small, rural town that is full or fear. But I visited the city on the western edge of Palm Beach County several times to report this week's New Times cover story and never found it to be a frightening place. Most of the people I met were friendly and open, eager to counter negative impressions of their town.

Driving west from West Palm Beach on a rainy afternoon in February, I watched as the clouds cleared and the downpour subsided as palm trees gave way to sugar-cane fields along State Road 80.

One of my first stops was the Alabama Georgia Grocery Store, where owner Jimmy
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Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

By Deirdra Funcheon Mon., Feb. 20 2012 at 6:41 AM
Categories: Fear-Mongering, For the Kids, Health, Journalismo, Media, Science
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​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong?

Or are their critics hindering them from saving lives?

As described in our recent feature story about circumcision, three studies conducted in

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