Saturday Miami Herald print edition going away, but we’re bringing you more news than ever
Much has changed since the Miami Herald published its first edition 116 years ago.
We’ve graduated from illustrations to photographs to video. From hot type to cold type to computer-generated newspaper pages. From morning and afternoon papers to a 24/7 digital news cycle.
And so now comes the latest turn in our ever-evolving business. As we announced near the end of last year, the Miami Herald’s Saturday print edition is going away, beginning next weekend, March 21. Yesterday’s was our final Saturday paper.
The Miami Herald has not missed a single day of covering the news in Miami since the paper was first printed in 1903 — not through devastating hurricanes, wars or riots. We’re not about to stop now.
This doesn’t mean we are abandoning print. We are expanding our Friday and Sunday print editions, so subscribers will continue to get all their favorite Saturday features, including comics and puzzles. More on that in a minute.
And subscribers can still access a version of the Saturday paper on our eEdition, which is a digital replica of the print edition filled with dozens of pages of additional national, international, sports and business news.
Most importantly, readers will have all the same coverage we produce now — just on their phones, laptops, desktops and tablets.
Change is usually unwelcome when it comes to long-standing habits. We know for some of you, not being able to read the sports pages or do the crossword puzzle over coffee will be a disruption in your Saturday routine. We recognize and appreciate the difficulty some readers may have in the transition. And we are here to help.
But this is a pivotal time for the local news industry and we have to align with our readers’ habits. We’re moving more of our resources into the digital side of our business because that is where we are growing — and impressively. The Miami Herald has the largest digital audience of any Florida newspaper, thanks to our loyal readers.
Meanwhile, print newspaper circulation has been in a precipitous decline for the last decade - another sign of the significant shift in reader habits. And subscribers who are reading the Miami Herald only in print are missing out on significant breaking news developments throughout the day.
Our coverage of the coronavirus offers one example. Last Wednesday, we reported the first coronavirus case in Miami-Dade; President Donald Trump’s announcement of the travel ban from Europe; the NBA’s suspension of its season; Cuba’s first three
COVID-19 cases; and Tom Hanks testing positive for the virus. All in the span of one hour.
Our decision to end the Saturday print edition was difficult and carefully considered. Decisions like these will allow us to continue doing the community-service journalism we are known for — the kind of journalism that in the last three years alone has earned the Miami Herald two Pulitzer Prizes and recognition as a finalist two times.
Here are the details on what’s coming:
A On Fridays, we are adding an extra puzzles page to the Tropical Life section. We will also print Saturday’s TV listings and movies in the Friday section.
We’ll print the Saturday Sports TV schedule along with the Friday grid in Friday’s Sports section.
In Friday’s eEdition, we’re adding three pages of uplifting lifestyle coverage each week.
A On Sundays, we’ll print Saturday’s puzzles, comics, the Dear Abby and Carolyn Hax advice columns and classifieds in the Comics and Tropical Sunday sections. We’re also adding a page and a half more of arts coverage to Tropical Sunday.
We’ll also print Saturday’s stock page on Sunday in the front section.
The high school sports results, Saturday horse racing results and sports boxscores will run in Sunday’s Sports section.
If they haven’t already, print subscribers can activate their digital accounts and read the Saturday eEdition’s traditional format, which features the typical paper plus dozens of extra pages of national and world news, politics, business, sports, comics and puzzles. Activating your account will also give you all the latest stories, columns, editorials, videos and podcasts available on miamiherald.com.
To activate your digital account, simply go to miami herald.com/activate. No additional fees are required. If you haven’t subscribed, you can go to miamiherald.com/subscribe to sign up.
Finally, if you have any questions, comments or concerns related to the new delivery method, please give us a call at 800-843-4372 or email us at customerservice@miamiherald.com. We will do everything possible to make sure you are satisfied.
We want you to have easy access to the news you pay for, because you’ve told us you want stories that hold leaders accountable.
In the last few months alone, we published stories on a Hialeah Police sergeant who kept his job despite multiple allegations of sexual assault — and a month later was arrested. We revealed how the owner of a South Beach modeling agency provided a pipeline of women to Jeffrey Epstein. We published an in-depth look at Haiti’s recovery — and remaining challenges — 10 years after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 300,000. And our reporting on the excessive compensation paid to the CEO of a nonprofit overseeing state domestic violence prevention programs led to a criminal investigation, a civil lawsuit and legislative hearings.
We had some fun, too. We brought you a video series in which celebrity chefs like Thomas Keller, José Andrés, Michelle Bernstein, Daniel Boulud and Marcus Samuelsson discussed cooking with food editor Carlos Frias over cafe cubano and pastelitos. And celebrated the highlights of Miami neighborhoods like Kendall and Hialeah.
Truly, we appreciate the long-term relationship we have with Miami, far deeper and longer than any other news outlet in town. Because of that support, our commitment to doing journalism without fear or favor is unwavering.
On behalf of everyone here at the Miami Herald, thank you for reading.