Vero Beach 32963, a weekly and online newspaper now in its second year of serving the Vero Beach barrier island, is published by Vero Beach 32963 Media, LLC, a locally owned media company.
Our editorial and business offices are located at 4855 North A1A, Vero Beach, FL 32963. While we prefer to be contacted by email at info@verobeach32963.com, our phone number is 772-492-9024. For subscription or circulation inquiries, please call 772-226-7925.
The CEO of Vero Beach 32963 Media and the Publisher of Vero Beach 32963 is Milton R. Benjamin, a former editor and executive of the Washington Post Company and United Press International who has lived in Vero Beach for two decades.
The managing editor of Vero Beach 32963 is Alina Lambiet, beachside resident who before joining our paper had been commuting daily to her position as an editor of the Palm Beach Post.
The associate editor of Vero Beach 32963 is Michelle Genz, a newspaper reporter and writer for the Miami Herald and Tropic magazine.
The staff editor of Vero Beach 32963 is Lisa Zahner, a newspaper reporter for Florida Today.
Vero Beach 32963 Media, LLC, also publishes VeroNews.com, the only locally owned and locally focused online news resource for Indian River County. While VeroBeach32963.com is updated weekly, VeroNews.com is the place to go for the latest news, 24 hours a day.
The managing editor of VeroNews.com is Ian M. Love, a longtime editor with UPI who later spent seven years at American Online.
Online editor of VeroNews.com is Debbie Carson, who joined us from newspapers in the Tampa Bay area.
Marketing Director for both Vero Beach 32963 and VeroNews.com is Mark Schumann, a longtime resident of Vero Beach and former publisher of the Treasure Coast Business Journal and Fifty Plus Lifestyles.
Art Director for Vero Beach 32963, VeroBeach32963.com and VeroNews.com is Dan Alexander. He is assisted with graphic design for Vero Beach 32963 by Tania Donghia-Wetmore.
Photography for Vero Beach 32963, VeroBeach32963.com and VeroNews.com by Tom McCarthy Jr., Keith Carson and Mark Schumann.
Vero Beach 32963 columnists and correspondents include, Tina Rondeau, Ron Holub, Mary Schenkel, Humberto Cruz, Richard Armitage, Cissy Sumner, Sandra Rawls, L.L. Angell, Jay McNamara, Rev. Robert and Dr. Casey Baggott.
Vero Beach 32963 is always looking for reporters, columnists, photographers and editors committed to doing a better job than existing media of covering the news that impacts the lives of the 17,000+ residents of the barrier island.
"This area has changed enormously in the past 20 years," Benjamin said, "and not all for the better.
"The Press Journal did a much better job of serving the community when it was owned by my then neighbor in Castaway Cove, John Schumann Jr., than it now does as part of a Cincinnati-based conglomerate that has turned the old Vero Beach Press Journal building into a Potemkin Village," Benjamin said.
"Many of the people who live on the island have moved here from cities where they were accustomed to the kind of local news coverage long associated with some of the nation's finest newspapers," Benjamin added.
"You don't get anything even approaching that from the local media, so we are going to try to focus on a small part of Indian River County -- the barrier island -- and see if we cannot do a better job of informing readers about issues and events that matter to them."
