Type	Bi-weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	The McClatchy Company
Publisher	Wayne Markham
Editor	Larry Kahn
Founded	February 19, 1953
Headquarters	Marathon, Florida
Circulation	20,000
Website: www.keynoter.com

The Florida Keys Keynoter is a twice-weekly tabloid format newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and is a sister newspaper to the Miami Herald. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest The McClatchy Company is an American Publishing company based in Sacramento California, that operates a number of Newspapers and Websites Marathon is a City on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and This is a list of the daily Newspapers in the World by average circulation A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The McClatchy Company is an American Publishing company based in Sacramento California, that operates a number of Newspapers and Websites The Miami Herald is a daily Newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered in Downtown Miami Florida. It primarily serves Monroe county in the U.S. state of Florida. Monroe County is a County located in the state of Florida. As of 2000 the population was 79589 A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the In addition to publishing regular issues on Wednesday and Saturday, the Keynoter also publishes the weekend magazine L'Attitudes and the bi-monthly Fishing the Florida Keys magazine. The Keynoter is also a partner of the Upper Keys Reporter, which specializes in coverage of the Upper Florida Keys, including Key Largo. The Florida Keys are an Archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. Key Largo is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and at long the largest of the Keys

Overview

The newspaper employs approximately three dozen people in three bureaux across Monroe County. The bureaus, located in Key West, Marathon, and Tavernier, also work with the Miami Herald and Upper Keys Reporter to provide complete coverage of the Florida Keys and southern Florida. Key West is a city in Monroe County Florida, United States. The city encompasses Key West, the namesake island the part of Stock Island Marathon is a City on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Tavernier is a Census-designated place and Town in Monroe County, Florida, on an Island named Key Largo in the upper The newspaper has been continually among the best in the state, repeatedly earning awards from the Florida Press Association for design and newswriting. The newspaper's coverage of fishing in the Florida Keys and surrounding waters has been repeatedly praised, and special fishing sections regularly feature columns and tips from local fishermen.

History

The Keynoter was founded by Edgar Seney Jr. on February 19, 1953. Seney, a regular vacationer from his home state of Michigan, felt the Keys were missing a platform to inform residents about happenings and issues affecting the Florida Keys. Until that point, the only daily newspaper in the Florida Keys had been the Key West Citizen, which was and still is primarily concerned with events in Key West. The Key West Citizen is a daily newspaper published in Key West Florida. Upon moving to the Florida Keys on a permanent basis, Seney began work on a newspaper that would eventually become the Keynoter.

The first issue was published from a small Marathon office operated by Seney, his wife, and a half a dozen other workers. Marathon is a City on Knight's Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Initially published on a weekly basis, Seney accepted a college fellowship in 1955, selling the newspaper to Nicholas Mitchell, associate editor of the Greenville, South Carolina newspaper. Greenville is a mid-sized city located in the upstate of South Carolina.

The Marathon offices of the Florida Keys Keynoter

In 1956, James L. Knight, one of the founders of the Knight-Ridder newspaper group, purchased the Keynoter. James Landon Knight (born 21 July 1909 Akron Ohio, died 5 February 1991 Santa Monica California) was an American For the unrelated television series see Knight Rider. For other articles see Knight Rider (disambiguation Knight Ridder The Keynoter would remain a Knight-Ridder newspaper until 2006, when Knight-Ridder was purchased by rival newspaper group The McClatchy Company. The McClatchy Company is an American Publishing company based in Sacramento California, that operates a number of Newspapers and Websites

The Keynoter didn't come into its own, however, until Hurricane Donna ravaged the Florida Keys in September 1960. Hurricane Donna in the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season was a Cape Verde-type hurricane which moved across the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico In the wake of the destruction caused by the hurricane, and to better provide coverage of the devastation, the Keynoter temporarily merged resources with the Florida Keys Sun, a weekly newspaper based in Islamorada. Islamorada, "Village of Islands" is an incorporated Village in Monroe County, Florida, on the Islands of Lower The two newspapers published joint editions for three weeks until splitting once more. After only one month of separate operation, however, the two papers merged permanently under the Keynoter name.

The post-merger Keynoter operated an Upper Keys bureau in the former Sun offices until 1977, when the bureau was moved to Key Largo, where it today occupies the second floor of the Upper Keys Reporter building. In 1984, the Keynoter switched to a twice-weekly Wednesday and Saturday publication schedule under the motto "Everyone needs it twice a week. " The Keynoter continues to use this publication schedule and motto today.

In 2000, the bi-weekly schedule was bolstered by the addition of L'Attitudes, a weekly arts and entertainment insert included in the Saturday edition of the Keynoter. Also in 2000, the Keynoter launched the Key West Keynoter, a Key West-oriented edition of the Keynoter, specifically written and designed to appeal to readers in Key West, the most populous city in the Florida Keys.

Awards

In 2007, the Keynoter received several awards from the Florida Press Association. In the categories of "special section" and "serious column," the Keynoter earned second place in the 7,000 - 15,000 circulation division. It earned third place in the website and community service categories, also in the 7,000 - 15,000 division.

These awards followed on the heels of its 2006 first-place finishes in the categories of general excellence, hurricane coverage, opinion section, web site, environmental writing, and sports column. In all of these categories, the Florida Press Association declared the Keynoter the best newspaper in the state of Florida in the 7,000 - 15,000 circulation division. That year, the Keynoter also received awards for in-depth reporting (2nd), outdoors reporting (2nd), obituary writing (3rd), editorial (2nd), serious column (3rd), and news story (honorable mention).

In 2006 and 2007, Florida Monthly magazine named the Keynoter the best weekly newspaper in the state of Florida. ^[1][2]

The Florida Keys Keynoter is also the only Florida newspaper, daily, weekly, or otherwise, to win the First Amendment Defense Award three separate times. ^[3]

External links

Official Site

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