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Scott PowersJune 11, 2016

There is a war on against Florida’s open records law and the press and public are losing, investigative reporter Carol Marbin Miller warned newspaper journalists Friday. Marbin Miller, a senior investigative reporter at the Miami Herald and former investigative reporter at the St. Petersburg Times, called for action at the annual awards luncheon of the Florida Society […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 25, 2015

Florida lost one of its oldest and best citizens when Elston Edward “Steve” Roady, a professor emeritus of political science at Florida State University, died at Tallahassee last week, four months into his 96th year. He was one of my favorite professors there, long ago, and a good friend. He did more than inspire two […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorJuly 21, 2015

A group of four journalists from Uzbekistan traveled to the United States this past week for a series of seminars and meetings with local journalists. World Partnerships Inc., an organization based in downtown St. Petersburg, brought the journalists to the U.S. to further their educations in various media and to learn about U.S. journalism practices. […]

Peter SchorschJuly 5, 2015

It was probably about dozen or so years ago when I first realized this. I recall an interview with a military advisor on Fox News who was describing how amazingly awesome the war in the Middle East was going. “So, General, is this among the best military operations you have ever witnessed?” “Tell us just […]

Guest AuthorJune 10, 2015

Amid the flotsam of a journalism instructor’s desk at the end of a hectic academic year – strewn business cards, papers never picked up by students, memos, meeting notes, neon pink paper clips and half a pack of Ice Blue breath mints – lies a stub of a burned-out candle. “Every journalist has talismans,’’ says […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2015

Whenever a politician is caught with his pants down, the wife is always a curious spectacle, so many in the media putting her under a microscope. Remember Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner’s accomplished wife and most ardent supporter? When she took to the microphone after one of his more recent transgressions, we saw something unfamiliar and, […]

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‘War on public records,’ warns top scribe Carol Marbin Miller

Martin Dyckman: A good friend, an inspiring teacher passes on

Janelle Irwin: What this American blogger learned from her Uzbek counterparts

Peter Schorsch: POLITICO takes hard swing at softball Alan Grayson

Rick Brunson: A journalist’s life snuffed out reminds us to ‘Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way’

Catherine Durkin Robinson: The unrealistic demands of monogamy