After nearly five years of documenting the inside story of Tampa Bay and Florida politics, my time here is coming to a close.
I have accepted a yearlong appointment as the Freedom Forum Visiting Professional at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications, where I am teaching four sections of investigative journalism and editing this fall. For the past four years, I have worked to complete a Master of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, and teaching was a goal of mine that the editors at CL have always supported. I have already started working on campus this week, while finishing up some projects for CL and editing the blog through the end of this week.
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2009.