Mary Shedden
News DirectorI’m the lucky one who guides the WUSF News team as it shares news from across Florida and the 13 amazing counties that we call the greater Tampa Bay region.
I’ve been helping tell the stories about this state we’re in almost my entire adult life — and I consider it an honor to find the extraordinary in people who think their lives are anything but that.
I’m almost a Florida native, growing up in Central Florida, and remember when Walt Disney World had ride coupons and orange trees grew in almost everyone’s back yards. For me, snow belongs inside a globe.
Florida’s growth coincided with mine, and that of my wonderful family, which calls St. Petersburg home.
Contact Mary at 813-974-8636, on Twitter @MaryShedden, or by email at shedden@wusf.org.
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The number of cases reported last week in Florida grew by 298,455, according to data released by the state Department of Health on Friday. That's more than double the number of cases from the previous week.
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The WUSF reporter will focus on people living paycheck to paycheck in the greater Tampa Bay region, and addressing a key part of Report for America’s mission to fill gaps in local news coverage. -
Students chosen for the project get an intense dose of journalism, and are paired the entire time with a professional journalist who serves as their mentor. Each one of the students is paid for their work. -
Join a news team committed to reflecting the complexity and diversity of a region that 5 million Floridians call home. -
The state has reported that more than 3,000 patients have been treated in hospital ICUs in Florida every day since Aug. 9.
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Polk County Fire Rescue is responding to close to 400 calls a day in Polk County, nearly 100 above the average. -
The collaborative project highlighted the stories of children sent into confinement by school officials, often without notifying their parents. -
Marchers blamed the state's response to the spill of 200 million gallons of contaminated water from the former Piney Point phosphate plant for what’s happening now in Tampa Bay. -
The state says it will now consider bridge lighting requests as long as local governments can show 'broad public support' for them. -
The team also collected six other first place awards and 10 finalist recognitions in the contest that includes commercial and public media broadcasters from across Florida.
