About Us
Our Mission
Island Media is a registered non-profit organization in the State of Florida with the mission of sharing information in order to create a more interconnected community.
About Key News & Island Media
Island Media was established in 2018 by a few locals to inform and engage residents of the island community on a variety of important topics. Island Media believes that local, nonprofit news organizations are vital to fostering strong communities and a strong democracy. They are essential in providing people with the information they need to make important decisions and connect with each other. Island Media officially launched Key News in February 2019.
Through its newsletter, calendar, and blog, Key News seeks to offer the island a regular look into its many offerings, community matters, and when appropriate, view points from leaders, experts, and residents on issues that affect our community.
While our focus is on Key Biscayne, we’re keenly aware of strong interest domestically and internationally, because of the sustained interest of former Key Biscayners living elsewhere, and because of our island’s geography, beauty and history.
We welcome this larger community of “virtual islanders” to our pages.
We are a proud member of The Associated Press news cooperative so as to broaden our reporting resources, and we invite our readers to send contributions and photographs as well as thoughtful opinion pieces.
Let facts be submitted to a candid world.
–U.S. Declaration of Independence
Key News Staff & Bios
Franklin Caplan
Publisher and Director
Franklin H. Caplan, an attorney, is a former two-term mayor of Key Biscayne and has led or been a member of many other civic boards. He chaired the South Florida Regional Planning Council and has served on the boards of the Miami-Dade League of Cities, and the Southeast Florida Coastal-Ocean Task Force. He served as a delegate to the Florida Regional Councils Association. As mayor, he led the expansion of MAST Academy on Virginia Key in partnership with Miami-Dade Public Schools, creating the first high school directly serving Village students.
He is a partner at the firm of Berger Singerman, concentrating in commercial real estate and corporate matters. A native of Baltimore, he moved to Key Biscayne in 1986. Frank met his wife, Gina Coleman, through volunteer work during the incorporation of the village. They have a daughter, Cailen.
Tony Winton
Former Editor-in-Chief
Tony Winton is a journalist with more than three decades covering national and international issues and events for The Associated Press, working in video, audio, and text. His work has included coverage of wars, natural disasters, major criminal and civil trials, presidential campaigns, as well as science, medical, and human-interest stories. He is the winner of several Edward R. Murrow awards and the Oliver Gramling award for coverage of the Elian Gonzalez matter.
In 2015, he founded Key Content, helping municipalities, non-profit organizations, and corporations to convey news and information to the public. A Chicago native, Winton is a National Merit Scholar and a 1983 graduate of New York’s Columbia College. He moved to Miami in 1990 and has lived in Key Biscayne since 2003. He is a board member of Crossbridge Church. He is married to Irene Porter, an appellate lawyer. He has a son and two stepdaughters.
Donald Elisburg
Contributor and Director
Donald Elisburg has decades of civic service protecting the rights of workers and public safety. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to serve as Assistant Secretary of Labor, where he enforced laws protecting children, farm workers, and the disabled. He also helped lead the Architectural Transportation Barriers Board, promoting safer streets for people using wheelchairs as well as the visually impaired.
Elisburg received his undergraduate degree in economics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. A native of Chicago, he moved to Key Biscayne in 1996. He has served as a member of the Village of Key Biscayne’s Underground Utility Task Force and was executive director of the Key Biscayne Condominium President’s Council. Don has spent a lifetime actively engaged in civic leadership at all levels. He is married with two children. He and his wife, Nancy, enjoy dedicating their time, talent, and treasure to Key Biscayne’s sister city initiative with Liberty City.
Annali Hayward
Editor and writer
Annali Hayward is a globe-trotting writer and editor covering local news, environment, food and culture for digital and print publications. A graduate of the top English program in the U.K., she is a seasoned expat, shuttling between England, India, Hong Kong and Indonesia before settling in Key Biscayne with her husband James and two little girls. She can usually be seen cycling around the Key, kids in tow.