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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jacqueline Charles ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Miami Herald’s Jacqueline Charles won a top award Thursday at the annual convention of Florida’s news publishers and editors for her coverage of last year’s Haitian earthquake and its aftermath. Charles won the Paul Hansell Award, named in honor of a longtime Florida bureau chief for The . . . → Read More: Herald’s Jacqueline Charles is Hansell award winner BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Senate Republican candidates Mike Haridopolos, Adam Hasner, Col. Mike McCalister and George Lemieux, participate in a forum at the opening session of the Florida Press Association/ Florida Society of News Editors annual convention at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Thursday. Photo by Scott Keeler, St. Petersburg Times ST. PETERSBURG, . . . → Read More: Little disagreement among U.S. Senate candidates The FSNE general membership session will be held at 8:30 a.m. Friday in . . . → Read More: General membership meeting Friday BY RACHEL KAUFMAN Doug MacGregor had worked for the News-Press since 1998 and was laid off during Gannett’s cutting of 700 positions nationwide last week. The Daily Cartoonist spoke with MacGregor about the job and his next steps. Read . . . → Read More: Mediabistro Exit Interview: Doug MacGregor, Cartoonist at the Ft. Myers News-Press EDITORIAL Gov. Rick Scott acted on behalf of Floridians Friday by vetoing a bill that would have driven underground the business of the state’s airports. Even for a Legislature with open contempt for open government, this bill was extreme and an invitation to scandal. Scott did the right thing by rejecting a measure that could have served . . . → Read More: St. Petersburg Times: Scott veto strikes a blow for openness Registration for the 2011 FPA/FSNE annual convention in St. Petersburg closes at 5 p.m. today (June 24). Program details and how to register can be found . . . → Read More: Deadline to register for convention is today BY STEVE BOUSQUET and ADAM C. SMITH TALLAHASSEE — Brian Burgess, the man charged with shaping Gov. Rick Scott’s image and message, got his start working with reporters on behalf of a Kansas district attorney best known for prosecuting an abortion provider. “I really don’t miss some of you dips—s at all,” Burgess e-mailed a Kansas reporter in . . . → Read More: St. Petersburg Times: Man behind Gov. Rick Scott’s message doesn’t always play nice with press BY BILL RUFTY BARTOW | State Rep. Seth McKeel had a little advice for his fellow Republican, Gov. Rick Scott, at Tiger Bay on Monday: Repair your relations with the news media. Questioned about the state’s Sunshine Laws during his speech before the public affairs club at the Peace River Country Club in Bartow, McKeel said the governor . . . → Read More: The Ledger: Seth McKeel urges Gov. Scott to mend his relations with news media BY NANCY SMITH Transparency in state government has little hope if the attorney general isn’t on board. Florida is fortunate. Pam Bondi, the Sunshine State’s attorney general, most definitely is. She was anxious last week to talk about her respect for the First Amendment and Florida’s open government laws. And her conversation with me about them (video below) . . . → Read More: Sunshine State News: Pam Bondi on public records, her respect for transparency in government EDITORIAL In the Sunshine State, we have a set of laws intended to assure the public’s right to know what its governments and its elected representatives are doing with our tax dollars and other public resources. It is appropriately name the Florida Sunshine Law. But now it seems, government has figured out how to block the public’s right . . . → Read More: Ocala Star-Banner: Scott’s abuse of the Sunshine Law |
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