“There are Newspapers Right in the Middle of It”: Local Florida Reporters Brave Hurricane Ian

At seven o’clock Wednesday evening, the Tampa Bay Times’ most experienced hurricane reporter and photographer duo headed outside. They’d been hunkering down in a hotel room in Fort Myers, about 12 miles out from Florida’s southwest coast, waiting for the worst of Hurricane Ian — what is likely one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in the region’s history — to pass through. “They were able to hike the first part of the Sanibel Island causeway on foot to assess,” managing editor Carolyn Fox told me Thursday morning. “They were hoping they’d get to the island, but instead they found… Read Full Article