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.