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Navy officer complains about Miami Herald reporter

A U.S. Navy public affairs officer assigned to the office of the Secretary of Defense has sent a letter of complaint to The Miami Herald about the conduct of reporter Carol Rosenberg, who covers the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

In a letter dated July 22 to Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal, Cmdr. Jeffrey D. Gordon alleges that comments made over the past year by Rosenberg toward Gordon and other military personnel were unprofessional and constitute sexual harassment.

Gyllenhaal said Gordon's complaints are being looked into and that because this was a personnel matter, it would be inappropriate to comment further.

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Mayor Diaz discusses 'House of Lies: Miami's Crisis'

City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and a few members of his staff met with the editorial board, editors and reporters at The Miami Herald on Tuesday to discuss the "House of Lies: Miami's Crisis'' articles that appeared on Sunday, June 3.

With Diaz were Javier Fernandez, policy aide to the mayor; Maria Santovenia, assistant city attorney who handles the foreclosure actions for the community development department' and Pedro "Pete'' Hernandez, city manager. Their voices are heard on this audio. Also present was Suzanna Valdez, the chief of staff for Diaz.

The Miami Herald voices include Joe Oglesby, editorial page editor; Anders Gyllenhaal, executive editor; Kathleen Krog, an editorial board member; and Larry Lebowitz and Oscar Corral, who helped report and write the "House of Lies: Miami's Crisis'' articles. Mike Sallah, who edited the project, and Assistant Managing Editor Manny Garcia also can be heard.

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Editorial-opinion firewall isn't perfect

K enn Finkel is a retired Miami Herald journalist, and so his concern as a reader carried informed weight when he wrote me to raise alarms about the position of the new opinion editor, Myriam Marquez.

Like her predecessor, Joe Oglesby, she reports to publisher David Landsberg. But what is new is that she also reports to Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal. That means that the newsroom editor now has a say over the paper's opinion writers. Will the two operations, once supposedly separated by a ``Chinese wall,'' become so mixed that the newspaper's editorial opinions will influence the news coverage?

``That dual-boss system is a guaranteed destroyer of credibility,'' Finkel wrote. ``Let's face it, credibility is the one thing that newspapers have going for them in the fight against the other so-called news media, television and the Internet. And now, apparently, The Herald is giving up that one advantage.''

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Diario publisher to head press group

Alejandro J. Aguirre, deputy editor and publisher of the Spanish-language Diario Las Américas newspaper, was elected president of the hemisphere's free-press organization, the Inter American Press Association announced Tuesday.

The IAPA is a press advocacy group that awards scholarships, defends press freedoms in the Americas and honors outstanding work. Founded in 1942, it represents more than 1,300 newspapers and magazines.

Among the members of its executive committee is Miami Herald executive editor Anders Gyllenhaal.

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Review clears Miami Herald's military affairs writer

Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg will continue to cover the U.S. military after an investigation into allegations by a Navy public affairs officer that she verbally abused and sexually harassed him at Guantánamo Bay.

In a letter Monday to the Pentagon, Miami Herald Vice President of Human Resources Elissa Vanaver wrote that the newspaper's internal investigation ``did not find corroboration'' for the complaint of sexual harassment and abusive behavior made last month by Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon.

Herald executives interviewed military officials and journalists from other news outlets, some of whom had witnessed the incidents Gordon cited in his complaint. ``We found some inconsistencies in [Gordon's] version of events,'' Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal said.

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Anders Gyllenhaal has been The Miami Herald's executive editor since 2007. He previously served as editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and executive editor of The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. A graduate of George Washington University, Gyllenhaal worked as an investigative reporter and later Broward editor at The Miami Herald from 1979 to 1991. He is married to Beverly Mills, a syndicated food columnist and cookbook author, and has two children in college, Grey, 18, and Sam, 20.