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Beth Reinhard

political writer, Miami (FL) Herald
breinhard@MiamiHerald.com | (305) 376-3460
Fellow for Election ‘08: Covering Politics in Cyberspace

Beth Reinhard is a political writer at the Miami (FL) Herald, and the lead writer of Naked Politics: The Raw Truth About Power and Ambition in Florida, the newspaper's political blog. According to the managing editor for multimedia, Naked Politics is the third-most popular of the Herald's Web logs, behind Dave Barry and the Miami Dolphins. Reinhard represents the Herald in local public affairs television, works with the local National Public Radio-affilated radio news operation and will lead the Herald's 2008 campaign coverage. She won the 2006 Florida Bar Media Award, 2006 Florida Society of Newspaper Editors second place for investigative reporting, 2006 Sunshine State first place award for state and federal political and government reporting, and 2005 Sunshine State second place award for state and federal political and government reporting. Previous reporting jobs included urban education reporter at Education Week, business reporter and general assignment reporter at the Palm Beach Post and municipal reporter at the Home News. Reinhard holds a bachelor's degree in English from University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.