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Within weeks Fort Lauderdale will have no daily newspaper for the first time in many generations.
The reporters, editors and others are moving out of the current Fort Lauderdale headquarters to a soulless office park in west Deerfield Beach.
Miles from the Broward School Board.
Miles from the Broward County Commission.
Miles from the Broward Sheriff’s Office HQ.
Miles from the news.
The paper’s coverage already suffers from too many stories that are cobbled together by journalists who never leave their computers. How many more of these will there be when the journalists are so far from where the news is generated?
The move is designed to save money since paper will no longer need to pay East Broward Boulevard prices to rent an office. The staff will be housed in the paper’s printing plant.
One loser is downtown Fort Lauderdale’s fantasies of being an urban center.
The Sun-Sentinel’s move is another example of why Fort Lauderdale is not really the center of most Broward residents’ lives. It’s a city planner’s obsession, not a reflection of Broward’s reality.
