The Online Home And Archive Of Miami Herald Radio Editor/ Reporter Michael Hibblen

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-About 40 Cubans are missing at sea after leaving the island on a small boat to join relatives in South Florida. It's believed to be the latest in a rising number of deadly Migrant Smuggling accidents. Download MP3 from 1/14/08, runs 3:36 (3.3 mb).

-In advance of the October release of a book and PBS documentary on the life of Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, I wrote this feature for the Miami Herald. Read My Story.
-Florida's Democratic Party is refusing demands by national party leaders and is going ahead with plans to hold its presidential Primary on January 29th. But it could end up costing Florida its delegates to the 2008 convention. Download an MP3 of my report from 9/24/07, runs 3:03 (2.80 mb).

-As more stores begin selling HD radios, broadcasters in South Florida are expanding their programming. Read My Article for the Miami Herald, 3/20/07, or Download An Audio Report that accompanied the story online. MP3 runs 19:19 (17.6 mb).

Interviewing Willie Nelson in May of 2005 in Fort Lauderdale as he was promoting his use of bio-diesel fuel. He says it can benefit farmers while reducing dependence on foreign oil. You can download an MP3 of the interview and see more photos on my Willie Nelson page.
-See Previous Reports that I've done for the Miami Herald.
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Read About My Radio Background
Details my 19 years in radio with photos and MP3 audio from each station or network. I started at a small town station in Arkansas, now working for the radio department of The Miami Herald, providing local news for WLRN-FM 91.3.
See My Black & White Photography
While I love the convenience and quality of my digital camera, nothing compares to the look of black and white film. In this section I've put together several galleries, focusing on some of the more consistent topics I've shot over the years.
Hear Beat Writers & Spoken Word Artists I've Spoken To
For about a year, in addition to my regular show, I hosted a beat poetry and spoken word program on KABF in Little Rock. I also took every opportunity to interview some of my favorite writers and poets and have included those here.

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Nearly three years after his death, I recently came across this snapshot of Peter Jennings and I and opted to scan it in. It was taken after I watched him anchor ABC's World News Tonight in my hometown of Little Rock in November 1992. This was shortly after Bill Clinton had been elected President and Jennings was there reporting on the transition team. It's quite a goofy looking photo, I know. I had gone downtown and saw him by chance and watched how he did the entire broadcast, then spoke to him briefly afterward, long enough to take this photo. You can click on the image above to enlarge.

 

 

 

 

This rather self-indulgent personal web site is dedicated to documenting my career and other assorted interests. I continue steadily revising it, most recently adding a page on Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who has now dropped out of the race. I covered him quite heavily in his early political career and have included newspaper stories that I wrote and MP3 files of radio reports and an interview I recorded with him in 1996 in the weeks before he became Arkansas governor.

I have a few train-related pages, including a Travel Story that I wrote for the Miami Herald in 2006 about taking a long train ride on Amtrak's Texas Eagle to my hometown of Little Rock. I also continue slowly expanding my section looking at the long defunct Rock Island Railroad in Arkansas, with recent photos and MP3 interviews with former employees. You can listen to a half-hour program I put together in 2004 providing a radio tour of Miami's Gold Coast Railroad Museum, which has an incredible collection. I've also got photos of Miami's fascinating, long shuttered Marine Stadium, which was damaged by Hurricane Andrew.

I welcome your Feedback. Also, if you notice any errors, links that no longer work or other problems with this site, please let me know. You can click on on any photo to see a full-size image. Also, most MP3 files available here are at either 56 kb or 128 and can take a while for slower connections to download.

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