Florida Today
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| Florida Today | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett Company |
| Founded | |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, FL, U.S. |
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| Website: floridatoday.com | |
Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Melbourne, Brevard County and the Space Coast region of Florida. It is a venture of the media conglomerate Gannett, and is similarly structured to the company's nationally distributed USA Today. The two publications are today part of Gannett's group of 101 daily newspapers, the largest newspaper group by circulation in the United States.
In addition to its regular daily publication, Florida Today publishes four weekly and eight biweekly community newspapers which are tailored for distinct neighborhoods within Brevard County. Daily circulation (50¢/issue) of the main publication is about 85,000, with Sunday circulation ($1.50/issue) is about 110,000. Circulation of the paper tends to be higher in the winter, but lower in the summer.
In 2000 Maureen Tisdale created teen section The Verge which was "by, for and about teens." The section was composed of 40 students, as long as they were under 20 (most were in local high schools, but a few attended the local Brevard Commuinty College). The section had regular articles in rotation such as Generation Gaps, where teens and someone from a different generation (parent, teacher, coach, etc.) wrote opposing views to a topic and regulated riots, which were less popular but the same premise with two Verge writers. The section began expanding into other parts of the paper and throughout the week - while it originally published on the back of the Sunday's People section.
Since Tisdale's departure in 2004, the section has continued onward under the guidance of Keilani Best, who has taken the section to its first two Newspaper Association of America Youth Editorial Alliance National Conferences, with writers Andy Hutchins (2005, in Nashville) and Nikki Roberti (2006, in St. Louis) taking part as teen fellows. At the 2006 conference, The Verge won its first two national awards: First and Second Place for Best News Story.
Copy editor Frank Ochoa-Gonzales is the section's designer.
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