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Debuting this week: Second edition of INFLUENCE Magazine (link to digital version inside)

Published on August 12, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch

Well, that happened. The first issue of INFLUENCE Magazine hit the streets March 3 and, with all humility, was a smashing success. Ten thousand copies of the first edition made their way into the hands of lobbyists in Tallahassee, fundraisers in South Florida, major donors in Naples, and so many other political aficionados throughout the rest of the state. Media outlets, including POLITICO, Business Insider, and the network of Business Journals all took note. I even personally delivered several dozen copies to law offices and PR…

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AP hires Sergio Bustos as Miami-based politics writer

Published on June 23, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Associated Press

Sergio Bustos, a veteran political journalist, has been hired by The Associated Press as the news cooperative’s Miami-based politics reporter, a key position ahead the 2016 elections. Bustos, 52, joins the AP from the Miami Herald, where he has led that newspaper’s politics and state government coverage since 2010, worked with PolitiFactFlorida.com in partnership with the Tampa Bay Times and served as the paper’s Sunday editor. The appointment was announced Tuesday by AP’s Politics Editor David Scott, South Editor Lisa…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.4.15 — Hillary Clinton to rally the base on voting issues

Published on June 4, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Good morning, everybody. Props to the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald for their world exclusive giving us the date when Jeb Bush finally ends his “exploring the waters” phase and officially enters the GOP presidential race — Monday, June 15. Meanwhile, Lincoln Chafee announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination yesterday and Rick Perry will later today, if you’re scoring at home. Meanwhile, for those critics who say Hillary Clinton is doing a whole bunch of nothing in these early months (and by…

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Florida reporters honored with seven National Headliner Awards

Published on April 16, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Florida media was well represented this week at the 81st National Headliner Awards, including top awards for reporters John Romano of the Tampa Bay Times and Julie Brown of the Miami Herald. The Press Club of Atlantic City launched the National Headliner Awards in 1934, an annual recognition of the best work in American journalism. Winning both Best of Show and first place for local news beat coverage or continuing story was Brown’s “Cruel and Usual,” a Herald series of investigative reports…

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POLITICO says it’s coming to Tallahassee

Published on April 15, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The Washington, D.C.-based political website POLITICO began in 2007 with 35 employees. It now maintains more than 400 staffers globally. Among the most notable hires for political junkies in Florida was when the site raided Marc Caputo from the Miami Herald back in January. Now POLITICO says Caputo will be joined by a “team of political and policy writers in Tallahassee.” The news was released via an email from President and CEO Jim VandeHei to the POLITICO staff Wednesday morning. He said that…

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Herald’s ‘Innocents Lost’ wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Published on April 1, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

“Innocents Lost,” the thoroughly researched Miami Herald series on child deaths in Florida, received the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism on Tuesday. Awarded by Harvard University, Worth Bingham honors investigative reporting of national significance in areas where the public interest is being ill served. The Herald I-Team investigation, led by reporters Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch, invested a year of reporting to explore the deaths of 477 children. They found that not only were the children victims…

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Award-winning sportswriter Gary Shelton joins SaintPetersBlog

Published on March 29, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Extensive Enterprises Media is proud to announce the addition of award-winning sports columnist Gary Shelton, who joins the new media group to provide unique insight on the intersection of sports and politics. The Tampa Bay Rays’ stadium saga; the Florida Legislature’s debate over subsidizing sports stadiums; progress on new soccer teams in the state; referendums to attract sports teams to Florida communities; athlete involvement in political campaigns … all of these issues, and many more, will be part of Shelton’s…

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Miami Herald - page 6

Debuting this week: Second edition of INFLUENCE Magazine (link to digital version inside)

AP hires Sergio Bustos as Miami-based politics writer

Mitch Perry Report for 6.4.15 — Hillary Clinton to rally the base on voting issues

Florida reporters honored with seven National Headliner Awards

POLITICO says it’s coming to Tallahassee

Herald’s ‘Innocents Lost’ wins Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Award-winning sportswriter Gary Shelton joins SaintPetersBlog

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