Florida Keys Keynoter

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American broadsheet newspaper

Type| Biweekly newspaper

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Format| Broadsheet
Owner(s)| The McClatchy Company
Founder(s)| Edgar Seney Jr.
Publisher| Richard Tamborrino
Editor| Larry Kahn
Founded| February 19, 1953
Headquarters| Marathon, Florida
Circulation| 14,000 [citation needed]
Website| flkeysnews.com

The Florida Keys Keynoter is a twice-weekly broadsheet format newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and is a subsidiary of the Miami Herald. It primarily serves Monroe county in the U.S. state of Florida. In addition to publishing regular issues on Wednesday and Saturday, the Keynoter also publishes the quarterly magazine Unwind. The Keynoter is a partner of the Upper Keys Reporter, which specializes in coverage of the Upper Florida Keys, including Key Largo.

The newspaper employs approximately two dozen people in two offices across Monroe County. The offices located in Marathon and Tavernier, work with the Miami Herald to provide complete coverage of the Florida Keys and southern Florida. 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

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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. 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 half a dozen other workers. 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.

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. The Keynoter would remain a Knight-Ridder newspaper until 2006, when Knight-Ridder was purchased by rival newspaper group The McClatchy Company.

The Keynoter did not come into its own, however, until Hurricane Donna ravaged the Florida Keys in September 1960. 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 located in Islamorada. 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

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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.[citation needed]

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).[citation needed]

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]

## References

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1. ^ Florida Monthly magazine, September 2006.
2. ^ Florida Monthly magazine, September 2007.
3. ^ Florida Keys Keynoter, July 11, 2007, pg. 32.

## External links

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* Florida portal
* Journalism portal

* flkeysnews.com, official website
* keysnet.com, former official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-06-11)
* Florida Keys Keynoter issues freely available through the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

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Florida Keys

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* Soldier
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* Sands
* Elliott
* Adams
* Caesar's Rock
* Meig's
* Rubicon
* Reid
* Porgy
* Totten
* Old Rhodes
* Islandia

Upper keys|

* Key Largo
* Island
* CDP
* North
* Tavernier
* Plantation
* Island
* former CDP
* Windley
* Upper Matecumbe
* Tea Table
* Indian
* Lignumvitae
* Lower Matecumbe
* Islamorada

Middle keys|

* Craig
* Fiesta
* Long
* Layton
* Conch
* Little
* Duck Key
* Island
* CDP
* Grassy
* Crawl
* Little
* Long Point
* Fat Deer
* Vaca
* Marathon
* Key Colony Beach
* Boot
* Knights

Lower keys|

* Pigeon
* Money
* Little Duck
* Missouri
* Ohio
* Sunshine
* Bahia Honda
* Spanish Harbor
* Scout (West Summerland)
* No Name
* Big Pine
* Torch
* Little
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* Big
* Ramrod
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* Knockemdown
* Cudjoe
* Sugarloaf
* Park
* Lower Sugarloaf
* Saddlebunch
* Shark
* Geiger
* Big Coppitt
* Island
* CDP
* East Rockland
* Rockland
* Boca Chica
* Raccoon
* Stock Island
* Island
* CDP
* Key West
* Sigsbee
* Fleming
* Sunset
* Wisteria

Outlying islands|

* Mule Keys
* Mule
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* Archer
* Joe Ingram
* Big Mullet
* Barracouta
* Cottrell
* Man
* Little Mullet
* Ballast
* Woman
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* Marquesas Keys
* Dry Tortugas
* Loggerhead Key
* Tortugas Banks (submerged)

Areas|

* Florida Bay
* Dry Tortugas National Park
* Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
* National Key Deer Refuge
* John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
* Biscayne Bay
* Biscayne National Park
* Key West National Wildlife Refuge
* Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge
* Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge
* Florida Reef

Other topics|

* Monroe County
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* Overseas Highway
* Overseas Railroad
* Card Sound Bridge
* Jewfish Creek Bridge
* Seven Mile Bridge
* Bahia Honda Rail Bridge
* Fort Jefferson
* Theater of the Sea
* 1935 Labor Day hurricane
* Hurricane Wilma
* Hurricane Irma
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* Key lime pie
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McClatchy

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* The Beaufort Gazette
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* Florida Keys Keynoter
* Fort Worth Star-Telegram
* The Fresno Bee
* Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald
* The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.)
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* The Telegraph (Macon, GA)
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* The State (Columbia, S.C.)
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Partnerships|

* The Seattle Times Company (49.5%)

Acquisitions|

* Cowles Media Company
* Knight Ridder

People|

* James McClatchy
* Charles Kenny McClatchy
* Eleanor McClatchy
* C. K. McClatchy

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