Miami.com covered standoff at own paper

A strange standoff at the Miami Herald is over, apparently safely, after about three hours today. The paper’s site, Miami.com, managed to cover the standoff even though the Herald building was evacuated. Jose Verela, a freelance cartoonist for El Nuevo Herald (owned by the Miami Herald) who claimed the paper censored his work, entered the building with a gun and took over an editor’s office. The building was evacuated, and nobody was hurt. Police negotiated a peaceful end to the standoff. The Miami Herald website did a great job updating the story and even put up a bunch of examples of Varela’s work, well before the standoff ended.

6 comments November 24th, 2006