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Encyclopedia > Florida Today
Florida Today

The July 27, 2005 front page
of Florida Today
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Gannett Company
Editor Terry Eberle
Founded
Price Daily: USD 0.50
Sunday: USD 1.50
Headquarters 1 Gannett Plaza
Melbourne, FL 32940
Flag of the United States United States
Circulation Daily: 85,000
Sunday: 110,000

Website: floridatoday.com

Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Melbourne, Brevard County and the Space Coast region of Florida. It was founded in 1966 by the Gannett corporation.[1] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (417x800, 132 KB) The frontpage of Florida Today (27th July 2005) from Newseum This image is of a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the newspaper... is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Gannett Company, Inc. ... Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami metropolitan area Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. ... Brevard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami metropolitan area Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ... Gannett Company, Inc. ...


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, lower in summer.

Contents

Teen section

The teen section The Verge was "by, for and about teens." The section was composed by 40 students, as long as they were under 20 (most were in local high schools, but a few attended the local Brevard Community 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, with the same premise with two Verge writers. The section began expanding into other parts of the paper and throughout the week. It was originally published on the back of the Sunday's People section. Brevard Community College, founded in 1960, is a community college in Cocoa of Brevard County, Florida. ...


At a 2006 conference, The Verge won its first two national awards: First and Second Place for Best News Story.


In May of 2007, it was announced that The Verge would be integrated with the paper, rather than have its own section.


In the beginning

Gannett's Florida Today, initially simply Today, was built at the Cocoa Tribune, to compete with the regional and dominant Orlando Sentinel and the state-wide Miami Herald. When Gannett (Gannett Florida) acquired the Cocoa newspaper, it also acquired the Titusville Star-Advocate in the county seat to the north, the Melbourne Times to the south, and the tabloid weekly Eau Gallie Courier, the latter published from the Cocoa facility.


In order to guarantee advertisers a minimum circulation, Gannett delivered papers at no cost to all residences in Brevard County for the first two weeks of the newspaper's life. It continued this free circulation promotion to specific parts of the county until its circulation met the minimum set for the advertisers.


Both the Titusville and Melbourne papers maintained their independence and continued to be printed at each publication's own facility.


Source: John Glenn, former stoneman at Today's start-up and for the Eau Gallie Courier, and (later) reporter at the Titusville Star-Advocate.



Florida Today owns the Central Florida Future, originally the University of Central Florida school newspaper. It is still provided free of charge to the school campus as well as several business that are nearby the university. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into University of Central Florida. ... “UCF” redirects here. ...


Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.gannett.com/map/history.htm retrieved on June 4, 2007

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You don't have to worry about trying to correct the Florida Today's lapses in truth to me. Because I have realized a long time ago that the Florida Today was more than obvious in their liberal bent, that is why well over 10 years ago I quit getting the Florida Today.
Even though the Florida Today's editorial staff is full of left wing wackos the paper is still a business and without readership its business will be impacted, that is why I tell all my friends to subscribe the the Orlando Sentinel (though they are not much better).
I enjoy getting phone calls from the Florida Today's circulation department asking me to subscribe to their paper, it gives me a opportunity to go into my tirade about how I would NEVER subscribe to their paper as long as they continue to employ a group of leftist wackos in their editorial staff.
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