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| Type | Defunctweekly |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | SunPost Weekly, Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Felix & Jeannette Stark |
| Publisher | Andrew Stark |
| Editor | Andrew Stark |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Ceased publication | 2014 |
| Headquarters | P.O. Box 191835 Miami Beach, Florida, 33119 USA |
| Circulation | 45,000 |
| Website | miamisunpost.net |
The Miami SunPost was a free weekly community-style newspaper published inMiami, Florida, and distributed in a print edition and an on-line edition every Thursday. The paper covered local news, politics, business, culture, society, and the arts. It circulated inMiami Beach,North Bay Village,Surfside,Bay Harbor Islands,Bal Harbour,Sunny Isles Beach,North Miami,North Miami Beach,Aventura, Miami's Design District, Wynwood, Upper Eastside, andMiami Shores.[1] It ceased publishing in 2014.
Writers, columnists, and contributors included columnists Alejandro Arce andCharles Branham-Bailey; news writers Frank Maradiaga and Michael Sasser; social editor Jeannette Stark; "411" columnist Mary Jo Almeida-Shore; "Go" columnist Maryanne Salvat; theater reviewer Tony Guzman; literary reviewer John Hood; film critics Ruben Rosario, Crissa-Jean Chappell and George Capewell; and music reviewer Vala Kodish. Erik Bojnansky is a former executive editor. Former staff writers have included Rebecca Wakefield, Angie Hargot, Lee Molloy, Anne Newport Royall and Arthur Carl "A. C." Weinstein.
The paper issued annual special issues including theSunPost "Best Of the Beaches," recognizing the best places and businesses in South Florida in several categories, and the "SunPost Top 50 People," recognizing local citizens for notable achievements and contributions.
TheSunPost was founded by publisher emeritus Felix Stark (1929-1995). Stark, owner of a chain of papers in his native South Africa, bought the dailySun Reporter in 1979. In 1985 he started theSunPost,[2] which became the longest-running weekly newspaper in South Florida.[3]
The newspaper never missed a weekly print issue even on the day founder Felix Stark was buried. An article written by the Miami New Times, the Sunpost’s direct competitor, in March 2009 mistakenly attributed the closing of the paper based on a front page obituary to long time columnist A.C Weinstein.[2][4] It remained in print until 2014.
TheSunPost won a September 1997 "Laurel" by theColumbia Journalism Review for the coverage of the "Save Miami Beach" campaign and referendum to curb the size of waterfront construction in the city. The paper was recognized for
