What was once the Miami Herald...Vol I

As the Miami Herald hurdles towards extinction, I figure it's a good time to dig back into its archives and look at some of the great reporting the paper once did.

Unfortunately the Herald's archives sit behind a walled garden, gathering digital dust due to a discredited model of pay-per-article. Hopefully the Herald will wise up and build an ad-supported model around its valuable archives. Until it does, I can only excerpt the articles because I can't directly link to them.

No one defines the Miami Herald's legacy better than Edna Buchanan, its Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter, who was also featured in Cocaine Cowboys.

Comments

[ChadC]

When will the Herald learn? Just stubborn and plain dumb sometimes. They should take a look at what the NY Times recently did in regards to their archive.

The NY Times recently announced that they are making a huge chunk of their archives finally open to search - everything from 1981. It will be tagged and labled with 35 searchable fields - that's more than 2.8 million searchable articles.

Why is this important? Not only can peole search and find information in this archive - other sites and blogs can link to those articles and enrich their own content. Maybe newspaper coverage can ultimately hold off its slow death as sites like the NY Times become needed and desirable search engine assets.

Here is a link to the NU Times story - http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/announcing-the-article-search-api/" rel="nofollow">http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/announ...

I actually blogged about this a while ago as well. Check it out if you have some time - http://www.brickell-life.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.brickell-life.blogspot.com

Miss the Clubland series. That was great work. Congrats and thanks!

[alfred_spellman]

Thanks Chad....hoping that Google swoops in and buys the Herald archive and photo library when the ship finally sinks...