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Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Melbourne, Brevard County and the Space Coast region of Florida. It is a venture of the media conglomerate Gannett, and is similarly structured to the company's nationally distributed USA Today. The two publications are today part of Gannett's group of 101 daily newspapers, the largest newspaper group by circulation in the United States.

In addition to its regular daily publication, Florida Today publishes five weekly and four monthly community newspapers which are tailored for distinct neighborhoods within Brevard County. Daily circulation (50¢/issue) of the main publication is about 85,000, with Sunday circulation ($1.50/issue) is about 110,000. Circulation of the paper tends to be higher in the winter, but lower in the summer.

In 2000 Maureen Tisdale created teen section The Verge which was "by, for and about teens." The section was composed of 40 students, as long as they were under 20 (most were in local high schools, but a few attended the local Brevard Commuinty College). The section had regular articles in rotation such as Generation Gaps, where teens and someone from a different generation (parent, teacher, coach, etc.) wrote opposing views to a topic and regulated riots, which were less popular but the same premise with two Verge writers. The section began expanding into other parts of the paper and throughout the week - while it originally published on the back of the Sunday's People section.

 

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