The Miami Times

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The Miami Times
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Garth Basil Reeves, III.
Founder(s)Henry Ethelbert Sigismund Reeves
LanguageEnglish
Relaunched1923;101 years ago (1923)
Headquarters Miami, Florida
CountryUnited States
Website miamitimesonline.com

The Miami Times is an African-American newspaper based in South Florida. [1]

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History

The paper was established in 1923 [2] [3] by a Bahamian immigrant, Henry E. Sigismund Reeves.

Sigismund Reeves founded the weekly paper, which he printed on a small hand press in his home.

His son, Garth succeeded him as editor and publisher in 1970, and passed the mantle to his daughter and Sigismund's granddaughter, Rachel Janie Reeves [4] in 1994. The current publisher is Rachel's son, and Sigismund's great-grandson, Garth Basil Reeves III.

After becoming publisher in 1994, Rachel instituted changes to the paper's format, a business decision that enabled it to compete with other local papers like the Miami Herald. She also raised the pay of her staff to attract talent. The change from a tabloid to broadsheet is credited with keeping loyal readers and gaining new ones.

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References

  1. Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Mark Graham. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. p. 362. ISBN   978-0-674-00788-8.
  2. Fleuranvil, Fabiola. "Miami Times". Miami and the Beaches. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  3. "The Origin of the Miami Times", by Garth C. Reeves, Sr. as told to Dorothy Jenkins Fields. Florida Historical Quarterly , vol. 5, no. 5 (June 1978).
  4. Cohen, Howard, "Rachel Reeves, The Miami Times publisher who built on the family dynasty, dies at 69", Miami Herald, September 13, 2019 .