Vero Beach 32963, a weekly and online newspaper serving the Vero Beach barrier island launched in May 2008, is published by Vero Beach 32963 Media, LLC, a locally owned media company.

Our editorial and business offices are located at 4445 North A1A, Suite 231, Vero Beach, FL 32963. While we prefer to be contacted by email at info@verobeach32963.com, our phone number is 772-234-4255.

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 Ian M. Love, a longtime editor with UPI who later spent seven years at American Online.

The associate editor of Vero Beach 32963 is Michelle Genz, a newspaper reporter and writer for the Miami Herald and Tropic magazine.

Director of photography for Vero Beach 32963 is Mark Schumann, a longtime resident of Vero Beach and former publisher of the Treasure Coast Business Journal and Fifty Plus Lifestyles.

Vero Beach 32963 columnists and correspondents include Leslie McGuirk, Mary Beth McDonald, Willi Miller, Tina Rondeau, Dr. Lynn Morrison Williams, Linda Clark, Ron Holub, Mary Schenkel, Bill Smith, Richard Armitage, Cissy Sumner, Lisa Zahner, Trent Leyda, Sandra Rawls, Pat Irons, L.L. Angell, Rev. Robert and Dr. Casey Baggott:

The newspaper's graphic designers are Carrie Scent and Dan Alexander, who also is in charge of development of our website.

Vero Beach 32963 is hiring 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."