So. Florida Sun-Sentinel Maucker Named E&P Editor of the Year

NEW YORK "Earl Maucker, editor and senior vice president of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, is Editor & Publisher's Editor of the Year, the magazine announced Monday."

• (THIS NEWSPAPER WITHDREW FROM BASEBALL AWARDS VOTING 2/5/06 AMIDST CONCERNS OF REMUNERATION FOR WINNERS AND OTHER ETHICS MATTERS. THEY MUST'VE KNOWN SOMETHING--RED SOX PITCHER MATSUZAKA WAS JUST PROMISED $8 MILLION IN INCENTIVES BASED ON CY YOUNG AND MVP VOTING.) sm

• "E&P revealed that Maucker was selected for his leadership role in growing the newspaper's readership and integrating marketing efforts -- while nurturing aggressive watchdog journalism that was recognized by winning three finalists spots in the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes.

The Sun-Sentinel achievements in readership growth -- propelling it early last year into Florida's most-read Sunday paper -- stands in contrast to other big dailies, especially some of its sibling papers who have been hit hard recently, while facing the uncertain future of Tribune Co.

• “I think at the [Tribune] Tower, they’d get rid of the Chicago Tribune before they’d ever let go of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel,” one former Tribune executive confides, only half-jokingly.

E&P reports in its cover profile: "At a time when metro daily newspaper readership is stalled if not falling, the Sun-Sentinel is growing, and converting skimmers into heavier readers, by following a simple mantra that has become its most repeated advertising message: 'Local, helpful, useful.'" Via Romenesko/Poynter.org

• On Feb. 5, 2006, the following post appeared on this blog:

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN- SENTINEL WITHDRAWS FROM BASEBALL AWARDS

Beginning today, Brian White writes, the Sun-Sentinel will no longer vote on baseball or college football awards. He says they'll report the news, not make it. The Sun-Sentinel joins a growing list of newspapers who no longer permit their writers to vote on these awards, including Cy Young, MVP, & Hall of Fame.

• Among other things, the remuneration for winners made the paper reconsider its participation.

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