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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| General manager | Matthew Sauer[1] |
| Founded | 1925; 100 years ago (1925) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1777 Main Street |
| City | Sarasota |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation |
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| Readership | 300,000 (2016)[3] |
| ISSN | 2641-4503 |
| OCLC number | 51645638 |
| Website | heraldtribune |
TheSarasota Herald-Tribune is a dailynewspaper, located inSarasota, Florida, United States, founded in 1925 as theSarasota Herald.
The newspaper was owned byThe New York Times Company from 1982 to 2012. It was then owned byHalifax Media Group from 2012 to 2015, whenNew Media Investment Group acquired Halifax.[4][5]
TheHerald-Tribune was one of the first newspapers in the nation to have an in-house 24-hour cable news channel.SNN was founded in February 1995 along with partnerComcast.[6] SNN was later sold to private investors in January 2009.[7]
The originalformer headquarters for the newspaper was added to theNational Register of Historic Places and still exists, containing theSarasota Woman's Exchange and several other small businesses; the 1969 replacement building torn down in 2010 to make room for a newPublix. The new headquarters building was designed byArquitectonica and won the American Institute of Architect's Award of Excellence.[8][9] In early 2017, theHerald-Tribune moved to new offices next door to its old headquarters on the fourth, fifth and ninth floors of 1777 Main Street.
In 2021, Jennifer Orsi was named executive editor.[10]
The newspaper has been a Pulitzer Prize winner or finalist four times, its first nomination having been in 2008.[3]
On April 18, 2011,Herald-Tribune reporterPaige St. John won thePulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for her series on Florida's insurance industry.[11] This was the first Pulitzer in theHerald-Tribune's history, marking a "sustained commitment to excellence".[12]
On April 18, 2016,Herald-Tribune reporter Michael Braga won the newspaper's secondPulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for a series in partnership with theTampa Bay Times called "Insane. Invisible. In Danger" that detailed the horrific conditions in Florida's mental health hospitals.[3]
On May 5, 2017, the newspaper won theRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for its "Bias on the Bench" investigative series, which found judges throughout Florida sentence black defendants to harsher punishments than whites charged with the same crimes under similar circumstances. That series previously won the American Society of News Editors' Batten Medal, which honors achievement in public service journalism, and was a finalist for ASNE's Dori J. Maynard Award for Diversity in Journalism. It also won theSociety of Professional Journalists' nationalSigma Delta Chi Award. "Bias on the Bench" was also a finalist for Investigative Reporters & Editors' Innovation in Investigative Journalism—Small; for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; and for the Selden Ring Award from the University of Southern California Annenberg School.[13]
Other outlets have raised concerns about theHerald-Tribune's diminished staff and resources impacting the quality of its coverage.[14] In 2022, the paper said it "erred" by publishing a column in support of the neo-fascistProud Boys.[15]
Editors of theHerald-Tribune include Bill Church, later senior vice president of news at GateHouse Media in Austin, Texas; Michael K. Connelly, later executive editor of theBuffalo News; andDiane McFarlin, later dean of theUniversity of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. When McFarlin accepted the dean position in January 2013, she had beenHerald-Tribune publisher for 13 years.[16]
Other notable alumni of the newspaper include Chris Davis, nowUSA Today's vice president of investigative reporting (Davis, previously investigations editor at theHerald-Tribune and theTampa Bay Times has been involved in seven Pulitzer Prize–winning or finalist projects); Matthew Doig, the assistant managing editor/investigations at theLos Angeles Times (Doig, another formerHerald-Tribune investigations editor was previously investigations editor atThe Seattle Times andNewsday); Aaron Kessler, an investigations reporter at theHerald-Tribune and now a senior producer atCNN (Kessler also worked atThe New York Times,E.W. Scripps Company, 100Reporters and theDetroit Free Press); Anthony Cormier, another formerHerald-Tribune investigations editor and Pulitzer winner who now works forBuzzFeed; and Carol E. Lee, a formerHerald-Tribune reporter, later aWhite House correspondent forThe Wall Street Journal.[17] Food writer and authorKathleen Flinn notes that she first conceived of the concept for herNew York Times-bestselling bookThe Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, while writing obituaries at the paper.
