Steve Newborn
Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.
He’s been with WUSF since 2001, and has covered events such as President George W. Bush’s speech in Sarasota as the Sept. 11 attacks unfolded; the ongoing drama over whether the feeding tube should be removed from Terri Schiavo; the arrest and terrorism trial of USF professor Sami Al-Arian; how the BP Deepwater Horizon spill affected Florida; and he followed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition through the state - twice.
Before joining WUSF, he covered environmental and Polk County news for the Tampa Tribune and worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during the early days of the space shuttle.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis says a drive-through testing site for COVID-19 will be set up this week in Broward County, which has been hit particularly hard by... -
Anyone wanting to get a jump on the voting for Florida's presidential primary can go to the polls beginning Monday for the next two weeks. -
While Iowa and New Hampshire have captured most of the attention of the Democratic nominees for president, Florida is lurking in the background as one...
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Florida's state animal has never had it very good. The Florida Panther was shot at, run off its hunting grounds and hemmed in by roads and development.... -
The threats to sea turtles are as big as the ocean they inhabit: red tide, overfishing, rising seas swamping their nesting grounds and being stunned by...
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A series of polls from the St. Leo University Polling Institute shows Floridians deeply divided on some of the major issues that the state will face in... -
Three of the biggest road projects ever proposed in Florida are on a fast track created by state lawmakers, not transportation planners. It's being... -
A series of polls from the St. Leo University Polling Institute shows Floridians deeply divided on some of the major issues that the state will face in... -
A series of polls from the St. Leo University Polling Institute shows that Floridians are deeply divided on some of the major issues that the state will... -
A series of polls from the St. Leo University Polling Institute shows Floridians deeply divided on some of the major issues that the state will face in...
