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Florence SnyderNovember 30, 2015

At long last, there’s an edge-of-seat movie about journalism where the woman on the I-Team is not sleeping with her boss or her source. That’s just one of a million things to love about “Spotlight.” It’s a two-hour cinematic distillation of two years in the lives of Boston Globe reporters as they piece together the […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about The Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Guest AuthorNovember 29, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about the Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Phil AmmannNovember 15, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times – Florida cannot afford Scott’s corporate welfare Gov. Rick Scott is campaigning to make Florida the king of corporate welfare. He toured the state last week to promote his $1 billion tax cut that would primarily benefit big business. On top of that, […]

Phil AmmannNovember 8, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Florida need to test all rape kits Florida has failed thousands of sexual assault victims by allowing rape kits to go untested throughout the state. Officials have long known they have a serious problem, but they grossly underestimated its scope. Florida Department […]

Phil AmmannNovember 1, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Times recommends: Gerdes, Garrett, Wheeler-Brown for St. Petersburg City Council A new pier on the waterfront is on the way, a building boom continues downtown and universal curbside recycling is here. St. Petersburg is on a roll, but there remain challenges — […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

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Although Joy Ann-Reid no longer has her daily show “The Reid Report” on MSNBC, she remains a regular fixture on the cable news network as a national correspondent. She also continues to write stories online at places like the Daily Beast, and you can now call her an author. Her book, “Fracture: Barack Obama, the […]

Guest AuthorOctober 15, 2015

Many of Florida’s public officials must be enjoying the slow death of the state’s once powerful newspapers. In the 1990s, a skeptical reporter would be asking exasperating questions every time a politician or bureaucrat made a controversial decision. The painful shrinking of Florida’s papers continues, though. Last week Tribune Publishing offered another round of buyouts. […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2015

Many of Florida’s public officials must be enjoying the slow death of the state’s once powerful newspapers. In the 1990s, a skeptical reporter would be asking exasperating questions every time a politician or bureaucrat made a controversial decision. The painful shrinking of Florida’s papers continues, though. Last week Tribune Publishing offered another round of buyouts. […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

Last month Governor Rick Scott agreed to pay a Tallahassee lawyer $700,000 in taxpayer funds to settle lawsuits alleging he and members of his staff violated state law when they created email accounts to hide their communications from state public records laws and then withheld the documents. As reported by the Miami Herald, the settlement with attorney Steven […]

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Florence Snyder: Church scandal underscores importance of press

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

MSNBC’s Joy Ann-Reid discusses rocky relationship between Barack Obama, black intelligentsia

Tom O’Hara: Floridians lose when struggling newspapers reduce staff

Tom O’Hara: Floridians lose when struggling newspapers reduce staff

70% of Floridians say taxpayers shouldn’t cover Rick Scott’s legal bills