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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While heat seems top of mind, state leaders did not respond to it with the same intensity of a tropical storm or hurricane, said a panel of journalists speaking on the Florida Roundup. -
Michael Penix Jr., came in second in Heisman voting. He received 292 first place votes and 1,701 points overall. -
A rare blue supermoon could play a role in an unfolding disaster as Hurricane Idalia brings the potential for record storm surge up and down the Florida Gulf coast. -
The awards for WUSF, and for a collaboration with three local media partners, honor work published and broadcast in 2022. -
The CNC news team, based in Sarasota, will produce journalism for more than a dozen news partners representing newspapers, radio and television stations and magazines across the region. -
Streamsong was created in 2012 when a Mosaic executive connected the mounds of sand left after phosphate mining with the dry, fast conditions found in the coastal "links" of Scotland and Ireland. -
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. -
Here's what you need to know ahead of the 2022 general election for the Florida Supreme Court, appointed judges, and appeals court judges. -
When in doubt about whether you are registered, reach out to your county Supervisor of Elections. They all have toll free numbers for each county or websites where you can check. -
Through a donation from the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation, the Community News Collaborative will operate as a separate newsroom that will cover topics including the environment and communities underserved by traditional media.
