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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Tribune Publishing |
| Publisher | Nancy Meyer |
| Editor | Julie Anderson |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Headquarters | 333 S.W. 12th Ave Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442 US[1] |
| Circulation | 163,728 daily 228,906 Sunday (as of 2013)[2] |
| ISSN | 0744-8139 |
| OCLC number | 45155582 |
| Website | www |
TheSun Sentinel (also known as theSouth Florida Sun Sentinel, known until 2008 as theSun-Sentinel, and stylized on itsmasthead asSunSentinel) is the main dailynewspaper ofFort Lauderdale, Florida, andBroward County, and coversMiami-Dade andPalm Beach counties and state-wide news, as well.[3] It is the 4th largest-circulation newspaper in Florida.[4] Greg Mazanec has held the position of general manager since November 2023, Gretchen Day-Bryant has held the position of executive editor since December 2024.[5]
The newspaper was for many years branded as theSun-Sentinel, with a hyphen, until a redesign and rebranding on August 17, 2008.[6] The new look also removed the space between "Sun" and "Sentinel" in the newspaper's flag, but its name retained the space.
TheSun Sentinel is owned by the parent company,Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired byAlden Global Capital, which operates its media properties throughDigital First Media, in May 2021.[7][8]
TheSun Sentinel emphasizes local news, through its Community News and Local sections. It has a daily circulation of 163,728 and a Sunday circulation of 228,906.[2]
For many years, theSun Sentinel targetedBroward County and provided only limited news coverage inPalm Beach County. However, in the late 1990s, it expanded its coverage to all ofSouth Florida, includingMiami-Dade andPalm Beach counties. In Miami,The Miami Herald is its primary competition, while in Palm Beach County,The Palm Beach Post is the chief competition.
TheSun Sentinel website has news video from two South Florida television stations: West Palm Beach'sCBS affiliateWPEC and Miami and Fort Lauderdaleindependent stationWSFL-TV; it was a former sister station to the latter before Tribune's publishing and broadcasting interests were split. It also publishes a Spanish-language weekly,El Sentinel, as well as various community publications.
TheSun Sentinel traces its history to the 1910 founding of theFort Lauderdale Weekly Herald, the first known newspaper in the Fort Lauderdale area, and theEverglades Breeze, a locally printed paper founded in 1911, which promoted itself as "Florida's great Farm, Truck and Fruit Growing paper."[9] In 1925, theEverglades Breeze was renamed theSentinel. That same year, two Ohio publishers bought both theSentinel and theHerald, consolidating the newspapers into a daily publication called theDaily News and Evening Sentinel.[10] In 1926, Horace and Tom Stillwell purchased the paper. However, the devastation wrought by the1926 Miami hurricane caused circulation to drop and, in 1929, Tom Stillwell sold the paper to the Gore Publishing Company, headed by R.H. Gore Sr. By 1945, circulation of theDaily News and Evening Sentinel had climbed to 10,000.
In 1953, Gore Publishing changed the name of the paper to theFort Lauderdale News and added a Sunday morning edition. In 1960, when the paper had a circulation of 60,000, Gore Publishing purchased the weeklyPompano Beach Sun and expanded it into a six-day morning paper, thePompano Sun-Sentinel—thus reviving the "Sentinel" name it had discarded seven years earlier. In 1963, theTribune Company acquired Gore Publishing.[11] In the 1970s, the morning paper changed its name to theFort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In 1982, theFort Lauderdale News andFort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel merged their editorial staffs.[12] The two papers then merged into a single morning paper under theFort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel name. In 2000, after expanding its coverage, the paper changed its name to theSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel.
In 2001, theSun-Sentinel opened a full-timeforeign bureau inHavana, Cuba. Shared with the Tribune Co., theirHavana newsroom was the only permanent presence of any South Florida newspaper at the time.
In 2002, theSun-Sentinel began publishing a Spanish weekly newspaper,El Sentinel. The newspaper is distributed free on Saturdays to Hispanic households in Broward and Palm Beach counties and is also available in racks in both counties. It is also available online at Elsentinel.com. In 2004, the paper won thePayne Award for Ethics in Journalism for its coverage of health and human services in the state.[13]
On August 17, 2008, theSun Sentinel unveiled a redesigned layout, with larger graphics, more color, and a new large "S" logo. This is in tune with another Tribune newspaper (Orlando Sentinel), which redesigned its newspaper a few months previously, and created a brand synergy with Tribune's sister operation andCW affiliateWSFL-TV (Channel 39), which relocated its operations to theSun Sentinel offices in 2008 and adopted a logo matching the capital "S" in the new logo.
From 2011 to the present day, the newspaper made significant updates to meld print media with modern media. These advances include: launching the pure-play entertainment website SouthFlorida.com and starting a video channel calledSunSentinel Originals. As a result of their media integration, the newspaper was named one ofEditor & Publisher's "10 Newspapers That Do it Right".[14] Most recently, the company had signed a deal withGannett in order to print eight newspapers from the company, which includedUSA Today.[15]
In July 2024, the journalists at the paper announced their intention to unionize.[16]
TheSun Sentinel gives annual awards to area businesses and business leaders, including Top Workplaces for People on the Move, Excalibur Award, and others.
In April 2013, theSun Sentinel won its first gold medal in the category ofPublic Service Journalism, for its investigative series about off-duty police officers who engage in regular reckless speeding.[17]
In 2014 the newspaper was named one of the "10 Newspapers That Do It Right" byEditor & Publisher magazine.[14]
TheSun Sentinel won its second Pulitzer for Public Service in2019 for public service for its coverage of theStoneman Douglas High School shooting, with The Pulitzer committee crediting theSun Sentinel "for exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School."[18][19]
The newspaper has also been a finalist for a Pulitzer 13 times, including for its 2005 coverage ofHurricane Wilma and an investigation into theFederal Emergency Management Agency's mismanagement of hurricane aid. (The latter investigation was featured in the PBS documentary seriesExposé: America's Investigative Reports in an episode entitled "Crisis Mismanagement".) It also produced a significant contribution to information graphics in the form ofNews Illustrated, a weekly full-page graphic that has received more than 30 international awards. The photography department has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice in the Spot News category. It was a finalist in 1982 for its coverage of a Haitian refugee boat disaster, and again in 1999 for its powerful coverage ofHurricane Mitch in Central America.[20]
In September 2008, aBloomberg L.P. employee saw a six-year-oldChicago Tribune article posted on theSun Sentinel's website aboutUnited Airlines' 2002 filing for bankruptcy and, due to its unclear display, mistakenly thought it was a recent story. The employee then added it as a headline onBloomberg Terminals.[21] The story then made it ontoGoogle News' front page as well.[22] As a result, there was a massive selloff of United Airlines stock, and its share price temporarily dropped "from $12 to $3 before trading was suspended."[23][24][25] Several days later, theSEC launched a formal "preliminary investigation" into the matter.[26]
Since 2018, theSun Sentinel has beenpreventing internet users in theEuropean Union from accessing its website, on grounds of missingdata protection compliance.[27][28][29][30][excessive citations]
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