American Journalism Review, June 1st, 2000
Deep divisions between South Florida's Cuban and non-Cuban communities posed wrenching challenges for local journalists covering the Elian saga. How did they cope, and how well did they do?
It's April 28, six days since federal agents took Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' house in Miami, and Mark Seibel, the assistant managing editor who has directed the Miami Herald's coverage of the boy's saga, is sitting in his small office. He's exhausted from working 15 days straight, so he doesn't bother to turn on the lights for a visitor. The sun is sinking into the Florida Everglades, and the cit...
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