Tag: Florence Snyder

Florence SnyderMarch 31, 2014

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Florida agency heads have been lying to reporters, spinning like dreidels, and withholding public records since the Chiles administration. So let’s give Rick Scott’s Secretary of State Ken Detzner points for breaking new ground with his prior restraint on journalist, author, Florida State University (FSU) professor and all-around state treasure Diane Roberts. Roberts is an eighth […]

Florence SnyderMarch 19, 2014

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Editor Lenore Devore thinks reporters should look at the wheat to be found in public records, and not the chaff of press releases peddled by taxpayer-supported ministers of disinformation. So when the Lakeland Police Department’s “public information officer” stonewalled a young police reporter looking to flesh out details of a shooting, Devore did what good […]

Florence SnyderJanuary 13, 2014

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Muckraking matters, but the true test of a newspaper’s mettle is its day-to-day commitment to telling ordinary stories in extraordinary ways. Florida lost one of its most gifted — and beloved — storytellers Saturday when Tim O’Meilia, 65, succumbed to cancer. O’Meilia leaves behind wife Debbie, sons Rolly and Casey, and generations of Florida journalists […]

Florence SnyderSeptember 3, 2013

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As Sen. Eleanor Sobel and Interim Department of Children & Families Secretary Esther Jacobo were practicing their talking points for last month’s Tri-County Legislative Delegation Town Hall, the Miami Herald was toting up bodies for its explanatory journalism headlined Killing our kids. Veteran reporter Carol Marbin Miller knows where the public records are, and she’s […]


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