The Miami Herald is a newspaper, founded in 1903, whose headquarters are located in Doral, Florida. It is the second-largest newspaper in Florida, and has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes.
On July 27, 2005, Arthur Teele, a former Miami city commissioner, committed suicide by shooting himself in the lobby of the Herald. Teele had just been written about in another newspaper, the Miami New Times, that same day. According to the article, Teele had multiple affairs while in office, including the use of cocaine and sex with a transsexual prostitute. Before the article, Teele had a telephone conversation with Herald columnist Jim DeFede, who recorded the conversation without Teele’s knowledge. DeFede was fired from the Herald shortly after the incident, although many disagree with the paper’s handling of the columnist’s actions.