Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email .
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Florida Highway Patrol troopers are helping to police Seminole Heights after four people were recently shot to death in the Tampa neighborhood. -
A day after the fourth slaying in Tampa's Seminole Heights neighborhood, police released new video of someone they are now calling a suspect.
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Florida Hospital has purchased about 100 acres along Interstate 4 in Lakeland where it plans to build a freestanding emergency room and eventually a 200...
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Health insurance rates on the Obamacare marketplace in Florida will increase by an average of 45 percent in 2018. -
Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new therapy that they hope could lead to a cure for multiple sclerosis. -
A Florida organization that helps people sign up for insurance through the federal marketplace will have its funding cut by nearly $1 million. -
For the millions of people who are still without power across Florida, heat illness can be a concern. -
Rain and power outages from Hurricane Irma led to sewage spills across Florida, according to the Department of Environmental Protection. -
More than 1.4 million customers in the Tampa Bay area were still without power as of 3 p.m. Monday, according to the Florida Division of Emergency... -
As Texas recovers from Hurricane Harvey, Floridians may be wondering how well the state could weather a similar storm.
