Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is the winner of the 2024 Brechner Freedom of Information Award for “Shakedown City,” an investigation into government corruption within the city of Miami that spawned a series of investigations by the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and state ethics commission. The award is…

Los Angeles Times Wins 2023 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability A series about failures by the State Bar of California to regulate and enforce the integrity of lawyers in the state earned the Los Angeles Times the 2023 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. The $25,000 award, offered by the University…

A series about failures by the State Bar of California to regulate and enforce the integrity of lawyers in the state earned the Los Angeles Times the 2023 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. The $25,000 award, offered by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is one…

Eleven University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumni and Miami Herald staffers were awarded a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Rick Hirsch, B.S. Journalism 1980 and Hall of Fame 2014, the Miami Herald Managing Editor at the time of the collapse, Al Diaz, B.S. Journalism 1983,…

A five-part series on a Florida government program that failed to aid families of children who suffered catastrophic brain injuries at birth earned the Miami Herald and ProPublica the 2022 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. The $25,000 award, offered by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications,…

Caitlin Ostroff, B.S. Journalism 2018, is the co-author of “The Grifter’s Club”: Trump, Mar-A-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency. The hardcover book, ebook, and audio will be published by PublicAffairs on June 16. Ostroff, a former Miami Herald data reporter, and her Herald colleagues Nicholas Nehamas, Jay Weaver and…

Aminda Marqués González, B.S. Journalism 1986 and Hall of Fame 2012, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald, has been honored with the National Press Foundation’s Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award. According to a Miami Herald article announcing the award: “Mindy Marqués…

Mindy Marques, B.S. Journalism 1986, was one of four of the nation’s top journalists, academics and newsroom innovators inducted into the 2018 National Association of Hispanic Journalist’s (NAHJ) Hall of Fame. Marques is executive editor and senior VP/News of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. Marques began her career…