BACKGROUND
Since 1923, The Miami Times has been an important part of the day for some of Miami-Dade's most sophisticated readers. Readers rely on The Miami Times for the most comprehensive, engaging coverage of the news-from arts and entertainment to sports and teens, business and technology to dining and the community.

Readers trust The Miami Times for its integrity and sound judgment. With the launch of www.MiamiTimesOnline.com, we offer a new extension to the way we deliver accurate up-to-date information to the community. The introduction of our website offers our readers a new way to get the most from The Miami Times.

OUR MISSION
The Miami Times, Miami's largest Black Community Newspaper represents the pinnacle of community relations. MiamiTimesOnline.com, our new website, is focused on being the community source for information in the Miami-Dade area. Each week, we seek to educate, entertain and inform viewers by covering Miami's community scene, politics, lifestyle, and business with authority, vigor, and integrity.

WEBSITE OVERVIEW
Our new website boasts interactive features including reader polls, grocery coupons, weather and online professional skills training through 24/7 University as well as one of the most comprehensive online shopping networks with many discount advantages.

We have captured the best of the Internet retailers as well as the best of the well known ‘brick and mortar’ stores to create our unique online Shopping MallRetailers are listed in categories to make navigating the mall as easy as possible for our readers – just in time to get all your holiday shopping done without struggling for a parking space!

Although there are a lot of new features, MiamiTimesOnline.com will continue to provide readers with the same comprehensive and engaging news coverage of its print edition while adding expanded news stories for each section including news, politics, lifestyle, classifieds, obituaries and church directories. Links are included below each article that connect the reader to additional information on the web that is related to the article topic. This enables readers to find more about what they are interested in, from lifestyles to politics, with a click of a mouse.

The addition of the MiamiTimesOnline.com website will also offer local business owners an exciting new approach to advertising. With the Miami Times, advertisers have the opportunity to impact their readers three times, once with the print edition of The Miami Times, then the electronic edition and then again with the new Internet site!