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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Florida's offshore marine habitat is in peril. Populations of fish are dwindling in many places, and manatees have been dying in record numbers. The basis for much of this life lies in seagrass just under our boats. We join scientist on a trip into one of the healthiest seagrass meadows in the Gulf of Mexico. -
A plan is being drawn up to help manage the 700 acres offshore of Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties.
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He announced in a press conference on Clearwater Beach that much of the money will remain in the greater Tampa Bay region.
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We feature the pastor and two parishioners of a local Ukrainian Catholic Church as well as a University of South Florida student from Ukraine.
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The Democratic state senator has launched a campaign to increase the number of Black and brown voters in Florida who use vote-by mail.
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As state officials focus on buying massive areas of undeveloped land, crowdsourcing efforts are being used across the region and state to try and preserve smaller pieces of nature.
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Said one attorney: “It is painfully clear that Florida isn’t doing what’s necessary to control the sewage and fertilizer pollution that’s wrecking the Indian River Lagoon."
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The spill from the former phosphate plant in Manatee County earlier this year was a cautionary event. But the country's largest producer of phosphate currently has plans for a new mine in southern Florida.
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State environmental regulators ruled the proposed well could impact water supplies and endangered species, such as the Florida panther.
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The oil well would be build in the heart of one of the state's biggest agricultural areas.
