A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he graduated from Northwestern University and worked at The Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, before moving to the Times-Union. He moved to Florida in 1990 and worked eight years for the Times-Union in Jacksonville and St. Jim came to the News Service in 2011 after stints as Tallahassee bureau chief for The Florida Times-Union, The Daytona Beach News-Journal and Health News Florida. Jim Saunders, has been executive editor of the News Service since 2013 and has covered state government and politics in Florida since 1998.
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In addition to writing for the The Free Press, the University of South Florida grad and Tampa resident contributes to and Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine.Īgriculture – Brad Buck, University Of Florida UF/IFASĭeborah Childress has served as Legal News Journalist for The Free Press – Tampa since April 2020. Petersburg Times in 1990, Tom has worked for Beckett Publishing, The Topps Company, the Versus Network, and the NBC Sports Network. Since getting his start as a freelance writer at the St. Riley exited the cable network in December 2016 and returned to radio July 3, 2017, as the afternoon drive host for sports/talk WHBO AM-1040 The Team. One, in particular, stands out – Super Bowl XXXVII, the Tampa Bay Bucs’ win in 2003. Rock has been a national sports reporter covering Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies and the All Star Game, the NBA finals, and numerous Super Bowls. His Tampa Bay radio stints include work on WFLA, WDAE, and 98.7The Fan WHFS.
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In 1997, he became the weekend TV host of “The Sports Connection” on Bright House cable’s Bay News 9 and was later promoted to weekday anchor two years later. He’s attended William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, and then St. It was definitely going to be sports broadcasting. His first on-air job, covering high school football for a local cable company, settled any doubts he may have had about what kind of career he wanted. In college, Jersey-born Rock Riley majored in communications but says he never set foot in a radio or TV studio while in school. Rock Riley started working with The Free Press covering sports, namely The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 2021.
In early 2017, Brian took over the role as Publisher for Gannett’s The Ledger and News Chief in Polk County until late 2019 when he left to start his own venture.īrian has a strong track record of increasing geographic reach, market penetration, revenues, and developing new technologies to create profit centers.
Starting his career with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the early 2000s, Brian worked his way to become the VP of Digital for North Jersey Media Group with the Record and Herald News in Bergen County New Jersey.īrian took over as Publisher for the Tampa Tribune in 2013 and stayed in that role until the sale of the company to the Times in 2016. We will be updating via press releases, our launches of new advances in digital mobile.įormer Publisher of The Tampa Tribune, Brian has over 18 years in the publishing business. While newspapers from around the country are evolving and changing to meet the needs of the ever-changing audience, The Free Press, headquartered in Hillsborough County Florida, is working for today and building for tomorrow.Ī completely digital platform that focuses on issues of today, law enforcement, local news, national news, and technology, The Free Press captures a younger audience where that audience is focused.Īdvertisers will benefit from being on the ground floor of new advances in this space and we look forward to working with them to help their businesses grow. Soft-launched in April 2020, during the COVID-19 growth cycle, The Free Press continues its digital growth with reach in 63 countries, and with a primary reach in the Tampa DMA at 97%.
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