A sampling of breaking news to enterprise stories I’ve worked on with reporters.

Buying Up The Bay: A Tampa Bay Times Special Report
Tampa Bay Times, Published throughout 2024
Throughout 2024, I edited a series of investigative stories by Tampa Bay Times business reporters highlighting the growing influence of corporate ownership over Tampa Bay and Florida’s residential rental pool. Over seven installments, Buying Up The Bay explored how private equity firms are buying up single family housing in Florida at record breaking rates, raising prices on tenants and clogging up local courts with a high volume of evictions.

Broken Trust: How a Clearwater man took $100M in funds for disabled, records say
Tampa Bay Times, Published Aug. 2, 2024, A1
Leo Govoni owned a private jet, rented executive suites and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Florida politicians. He denies any wrongdoing.

No consequences after Florida officers admit to sexually abusing inmates, lawsuit says
Tampa Bay Times, Published September 17, 2020, A1
Fifteen women at the nation’s largest federal prison filed suit, saying sexual abuse at FCC Coleman in Florida was widespread.

In Tampa’s Palmetto Beach, residents swim to survive dangerous storm surge
Tampa Bay Times, Published September 27, 2024, A1
Residents recall treading water inside their homes as record storm surge from Hurricane Helene flooded the Hillsborough County city.

A rare brain disease, Mount Everest and a Tampa man’s struggle to grieve
Tampa Bay Times, Published Novemer 2, 2023. A1
Tampa attorney Nick Horner lost his father to a mysterious neurological condition. His struggle to recover led him to Earth’s highest mountain.