HOPE DURING THE STORM: The Marriott on Water Street shown a light-up heart as Tampa weathered Hurricane Milton. bit.ly/4857kSz

We are live with an extra edition of the ⁦Tampa Bay Times⁩ e-Newspaper… #Milton (partial front page)

All Poynter staff have been accounted for, and the institute’s headquarters in downtown St. Petersburg went mostly unscathed by Hurricane Milton’s destructive winds. Read the update: poynter.org/business-work/…

“It’s not like you just have a story that’s important to cover. Your lives are on the line and your family’s lives are on the line, and you’ve got to take care,” Mr. Katches said. “Everyone here is here because it’s a calling for them.” nytimes.com/2024/10/10/bus…

Driving across Florida in the middle of the night after a hurricane, that’s one way to make peace with your God. Or start to try. tampabay.com/opinion/2024/1…

St. Petersburg building hit by crane housed newspapers for a century Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

I wrote a column about our newsroom’s extraordinary response covering a second massive hurricane in 13 days, even as our building got wrecked. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024…

Hard to read today’s Tampa Bay Times without tearing up. So proud of, and so grateful for, this team of relentless reporters. Front page: 📍Christopher Spata: 13 days, 2 hurricanes 📍Ian Hodgson & Max Chesnes: Rescues and record floods If you can, pls support us: project.tampabay.com/donate

After a crane plunged hundreds of feet and hit an office building during Hurricane Milton, many in Tampa Bay are asking: How could this happen? No one except the contractor appears to be investigating. tampabay.com/hurricane/2024… Bethany Barnes Colleen Wright Rebecca Woolington Dirk Shadd

Budding Journalists: Applications for the 2025-2026 are now open through Dec. 2. Some new ones: an A.I. initiatives fellow and a news video fellow. nytco.com/press/applicat…

After hundreds of residents in non-evacuation zones faced life threatening hurricane flooding without warning, leaders in one Florida county want an independent investigation. w/ Teghan Simonton Tampa Bay Times tampabay.com/news/hillsboro…

While maryam مريم jameel and I were deep in our reporting on America’s Dairyland, we kept hearing about immigrants showing up in a little Wisconsin town. Here is our story about what really happened there, at a moment when immigration is dividing our country. propublica.org/article/immigr…

Rebecca Liebson and Teghan Simonton of the ⁦Tampa Bay Times⁩ have written 7 jawdropping installments of their #BuyingUpTheBay series. The latest involves Alden Global Capital, which — in addition to newspapers — happens to own dilapidated mobile home parks tampabay.com/news/real-esta…

Pasco Sheriff settled a lawsuit from four people targeted by its intelligence-led policing program. The office acknowledged it had infringed on constitutional rights, agreed to not return to a similar program and will pay $105k. Settlement text from Institute for Justice: ij.org/wp-content/upl…

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Want to boost your editing skills and build strong relationships with your reporters? Join Maria Carrillo Kathleen McGrory and me at Poynter's Edit to Elevate seminar in September. bit.ly/edit_to_elevate