Matthew Waite
Matthew Waite, a native of Nebraska, is the news technologist for Florida's largest daily newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, and its website, Tampabay.com. He is also the principal developer of Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact.com. While a student journalist at the University of Nebraska, he went to Bosnia to report on the conflict there. He won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award in 1996 for a Daily Nebraskan story involving a computer-assisted examination of crime rates in a Lincoln, Neb., neighborhood. Before becoming the Times' news technologist, he was an award-winning investigative reporter, winning several state and national awards for a series of stories he wrote with Craig Pittman on Florida's vanishing wetlands. He started at the Times in 2000 as a general assignment reporter in west Pasco County.
Corps loses two wetland cases in court
Posted on July 15, 2010 8:22 p.m.
By Craig Pittman
It's been a rough couple of weeks for the Corps of Engineers, as federal judges in two high-profile Florida cases ...
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"Paving Paradise" wins award named for Florida icon Stetson Kennedy
Posted on May 20, 2010 7:45 p.m.
By Craig Pittman
Big news, folks. The Florida Historical Society has notified our publisher that "Paving Paradise" has been named the winner of ...
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Oil spill reminds us of importance of wetlands
Posted on April 29, 2010 11:29 p.m.
By Craig Pittman
We named our book "Paving Paradise" after the lyrics from Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi," in which she observed, ...
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Earth Day at 40: Strong laws, spotty enforcement
Posted on April 21, 2010 8:15 p.m.
By Craig Pittman
You should expect to see a ton of stories this week about the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on Thursday. ...
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Restoring wetlands, restoring the Clean Water Act
Posted on March 7, 2010 10:39 a.m.
By Craig Pittman
The White House delighted environmental and civic groups in Louisiana and Mississippi last week with an announcement about a new ...
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