Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami FL 33132, Tel: 305-350-2111,
Fax: 305-376-3508. Circulation: 427,000.
This newspaper is owned by Knight-Ridder, Inc., a publicly-traded company
based in Miami which was ranked 194 on the Fortune 500 in 1991. It began in
1974 as a merger between Knight Newspapers (2nd largest newspaper group by
circulation) and Ridder Publications (3rd largest). After the merger they
expanded into television, radio, book publishing, on-line information systems,
and electronic publishing. In 1988 they purchased DIALOG from Lockheed for
$353 million. By 1992 they published 29 daily newspapers, with the Miami
Herald, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News,
and San Jose Mercury News generating 50 percent of the company's sales.
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