The Tampa Bay Times is among the slew of Florida news outlets working tirelessly through Hurricane Ian. “We are very concerned about everyone in the communities south of us,” managing editor Carolyn Fox tells V.F.
to hit Tampa Bay head on; by Tuesday the storm’s track had shifted east, eventually making landfall south of Tampa Bay and sparing the area the most severe weather. Fox had evacuated in her car to Orlando Monday evening not knowing if her house would be intact when she returned.
While a number of staff remained within non-evacuation areas of the Tampa Bay region, the paper also deployed a few go-teams—including the duo in Fort Myers—to be their “eyes and ears on the ground in the worst hit parts of Florida once the storm passes,” said Fox, adding, “no one is standing in the middle of a storm in our newsroom.
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