Local Entrepreneurs Create New, College-Only Social Network
Yes, there is already Facebook,Twitter Instagram, and Tumblr. But two local recent college grads have brought another social network into the world: SLFY, a free app that's restricted to university...
View ArticleMiami New Times' Owner, Voice Media Group, Sells Village Voice
The owners of Miami New Times on Monday completed a sale of New York's Village Voice to investor Peter Barbey. Voice Media Group, which took over the publication in 2013, did not announce financial...
View ArticleDEA Agent Behind Narcos Spent Years Busting Coke Dealers in Miami
On a hot July afternoon, Steve Murphy was sweating inside a yellow, one-story house in West Little River. It was 1989, the height of the Cocaine Cowboy era, and Murphy and his partner, Kevin Stephens,...
View ArticleJose Diaz-Balart: "My Community Is All the People Who Come Here to Support...
A conversation with José Díaz-Balart is a master class in journalism. The MSNBC and Telemundo anchor, a 30-year TV news veteran, repeatedly directs the conversation away from himself and toward the...
View ArticleBomani Jones on Highly Questionable: "It's Improvisational"
There's not a sports journalist in America with a better office than Bomani Jones. Jones records both his ESPN radio show, The Right Time With Bomani Jones, and the TV hit he cohosts with Dan Le...
View ArticleDisney to Ditch Miami-Based Fusion After Investing in Vice
A little over two years ago two established old media companies decided they knew exactly what the elusive millennial network wanted: a joint venture between two established old media companies!...
View ArticleMedia Consolidation at Point Where Univision Buying the Onion Makes Sense
Sure, it seems like a line out of a satirical article about media consolidation, but your abuela's favorite porvayor of Telenovelas has bought a controling stake in your hipster cousin's favorite fake...
View ArticleMiami Actress Exposes "Gold Digger" YouTube Prank With Millions of Views
Vivian Rubio, a veteran actress and model with scores of credits on telenovelas like La Reina del Sur, recently returned home to Miami from her base in L.A. and was looking for some extra work. When...
View ArticleBoycott Will Smith, Not the Oscars, Until He Does More for Black Actors
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are the last people who should be leading a protest against the Academy Awards. All of a sudden, they want to fight for more minority representation at the Oscars...
View ArticleNew York Magazine Confuses Condo Development for General Miami Culture
Perhaps you've noticed the phenomenon of major articles about Miami popping up in the national press roughly between November and April every year. This year, a general theme of many of those articles...
View ArticleMiami Stripper Who Was Bitten by Donald Trump's Manager's Lawyer Didn't Think...
A few weeks ago we were reminded of the fact that "scandals" that seem almost unnoteworthy here in Miami can appear absolutely shocking to the rest of the country. At the time, we were discussing Marco...
View ArticleNew Times Story Honored With Sigma Delta Chi Award From Society of...
A New Times story about a cult YouTube bodybuilding star and his oddball cast of characters has won national honors from the Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ announced today that the story by...
View ArticleFlorida's Two Largest Newspapers Are Now One
Florida's most read newspaper has swallowed the state's print circulation runner-up (at least according to 2014 number). The Tampa Bay Times announced today that it has acquired cross-region rival The...
View ArticleNew Times Is Looking for a Part-Time Copyeditor
New Times Broward Palm Beach has an immediate opening for a part-time copyeditor. We're looking for a technically savvy editor with superior language and research skills. The ideal candidate will be...
View ArticleIs GQ Purposely Trolling Dolphins Fans?
You wouldn't shoot a Red Sox player in the middle of Times Square scarfing down a slice of New York-style pizza. You don't pose Washington's QB in downtown Dallas decked out in a 10-gallon hat and...
View ArticleMiami Beach Admits It Charged Herald Nearly Double What Public Records Law...
When the Miami Herald recently asked for public records from Miami Beach about the city's water quality, City Hall responded with a whopping $72,793.53 bill for the documents. That lead to loud...
View ArticleMiami's WPBT2 Suspends Host Kalyn Chapman James for Calling Dallas Shooter a...
Miami's WPBT2 TV host Kalyn Chapman James has been suspended from her job for calling Micah Xavier Johnson, the man who killed five police officers at an anti-police-brutality march in Dallas last...
View ArticleMiami TV Reporters Cover the African-American Community Poorly
When it comes to reporting on crime and other bad things happening in Miami, local TV stations do not provide fair and balanced coverage. In fact, mainstream news organizations are out to destroy...
View ArticleNew Times Is Looking for a Layout Editor
New Times has an immediate opening for a layout editor. This person will produce sophisticated and vibrant layouts for the print and online versions of the paper, produce and supervise interactive and...
View ArticleFormer Miami Filmmaker Trapped Inside Turkish Prison After Escaping Syria
In Miami, journalist Lindsey Snell spent years working documentary projects like Billy Corben's Square Grouper. The University of Florida graduate made a name for herself telling the...
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