Michael Putney is a senior political television reporter and columnist

Columnist

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, based in Miami, United States

United States

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. Putney is the winner of two Emmy Awards.

Since 1981, Putney has broadcast for WPLG

WPLG

WPLG, channel 10, is an ABC network affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida. WPLG is owned and operated by Post-Newsweek Stations, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. The station's studios are located in Pembroke Park, and its transmitter is located at the massive broadcast...

, channel 10, an ABC network affiliate

Network affiliate

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d television station

Television station

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, located in Miami, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

, as host of "This Week In South Florida with Michael Putney."

Putney also writes a semimonthly column on politics for The Miami Herald

The Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States...

, and has reported for The National Observer, Time

Time (magazine)

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, and WTVJ

WTVJ

WTVJ, virtual channel 6 , is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC television network, located in Broward County. WTVJ shares its TV studio and office facility with co-owned Telemundo station WSCV in Miramar, Florida, and its transmitter is located near Sun Life Stadium in north...

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