Mark Katches
Executive Editor at Tampa Bay Times
Executive Editor at Pasco Times
Editor @TB_Times, a newsroom that won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes in 2021-2022. Former: @oregonian @cironline @journalsentinel @ocregister
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2 weeks ago |
tampabay.com | Mark Katches
Florida is a rich locale for environmental coverage. It is ground zero for climate change, as increasingly destructive and devastating hurricanes wreak havoc up and down the state. The consequences are borne out by rising seas and sunny day flooding, by dying coral and ever-more potent red tide plumes. Pollution and other threats to a healthy environment surround us.
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Nov 16, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Mark Katches
An immense amount of planning goes into covering Election Day. So let me take you behind the scenes as we readied to cover one of the most consequential elections in our nation’s history. And we’ll get to that moment when we published, and reprinted, a front-page Extra edition poster that some readers really wished we hadn’t.
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Oct 11, 2024 |
tampabay.com | Mark Katches
Hurricane Milton had just crashed into Florida with 100-mph winds when Tampa Bay Times journalists Zachary T. Sampson and Chris Urso prepared to deploy toward landfall in Sarasota County. Plans changed when they heard about the Trop. Sampson and Urso — one of five “go teams” mobilizing to cover the storm for the Times — headed to downtown St. Petersburg to chronicle the surreal sight at Tropicana Field, its roof obliterated.
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Sep 14, 2024 |
tampabay.com | Mark Katches
Florida has more golf courses than any state in America — in excess of 1,200. That’s apparently not enough for Gov. Ron DeSantis. His administration sought to transform state parkland — coveted for its natural beauty and pristine habitats — into more manicured lawns, pickleball courts, disc golf courses and lodges (the rustic term for a hotel plopped onto a park). When Tampa Bay Times environment reporter Max Chesnes got the tip about this, it seemed almost unbelievable.
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Jul 14, 2024 |
tampabay.com | Mark Katches
Many readers are probably wondering why their Tampa Bay Times on Sunday didn’t have news of an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. It’s a fair question. For the past three years, we’ve printed our Wednesday and Sunday newspapers in Lakeland. Most readers have grown accustomed to the reality that evening sports scores and late breaking news won’t arrive in the printed version of the paper. Still, it can be jarring when absent. Glaringly so, when the news is momentous.
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