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  Following BuzzFeed, Gannett, and McClatchy, CBS Corp. Offers Buyouts to Hundreds

  February 11 at 2:27 p.m.

  CBS Corporation is making buyout offers to hundreds of employees in cities across the nation including Miami, New Times has learned. At least 20 highly paid longtime employees of WFOR, the CBS-owned-and-operated TV station in Doral, began receiving offers last week. Senior vice president and associate general counsel Adam Siegel confirmed the buyouts...

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  National Enquirer Heir Whacks Pecker Over Bezos Dick-Pic Blackmail

  February 8 at 5:47 p.m.

  Sure, the National Enquirer of old might have been a ruthless publication that had mafia and CIA ties and occasionally "caught-and-killed" stories about famous people. But Paul David Pope, the son of Enquirer founder Generoso "Gene" Pope Jr., claims that the paper's latest attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO (and Miami native)...

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  It's Actually Good That Miamians Can't Afford Rent or Groceries, According to Libertarians

  February 7 at 9:19 a.m.

  Yesterday, the United Way released an utterly bleak dataset showing that, in both Miami-Dade County and Florida overall, most residents struggle to afford basic goods and services, like rent, groceries, and childcare. According to the United Way, nearly 60 percent of Miamians are either living underneath the federal poverty line...

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  Amid Layoffs, McClatchy News CEO Got a $900,000 Bonus in 2017

  February 5 at 12:26 p.m.

  Last Friday, the McClatchy Newspaper Company — which owns the Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, Bradenton Herald, Charlotte Observer, the flagship Miami Herald, and other major dailies — announced plans to gut its reporting staff. In an internal email from CEO Craig Forman, the company announced a whopping 450 employees...

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  Parkland Parents Call for Pulitzer for Sun Sentinel's Coverage of School Shooting

  February 1 at 8:58 a.m.

  Over the months the Sun-Sentinel has been digging into the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, representatives for the Broward County School District have stonewalled the paper's public records requests, ridiculed one of its reporters as "smelly" and "skanky," and tried to have two more of its...

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  Integrity-Challenged Mayor Chastises Miami Herald in Pathetic Letter

  Friday, December 21, 2018 at 7:30 a.m.

  Carlos Gimenez has not been a good Miami-Dade County mayor. He will forever be remembered as the leader who agreed to cooperate with Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation police. He also brazenly vetoed the creation of an independent police-oversight board. And he definitely has some ethical issues.Yet...