The editor of the Tampa Bay Times says his news operation didn't miss a beat despite a crane collapse during Hurricane Milton that gouged a hole in the St. Petersburg office building that housed his newsroom. Mark Katches said Friday that the building was closed at the time, so no one was hurt.
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The Times Publishing Co. used to own the damaged building but sold it in 2016, and the news organization is now one of several tenants there. The building was closed when Milton roared through late Tuesday and early Wednesday, in part because it has no backup generators, so no one working for the Times or anyone else was hurt, the editor said.
The Times is the largest newspaper serving the more than 3.3 million people who live in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Most Times journalists covering the hurricane were working remotely on Tuesday night, or at a hub set up for a handful of editors in the community of Wesley Chapel, about 25 miles outside of Tampa.Katches said he’s not sure when newsroom employees will be allowed back in the building. One hopeful factor is that the newsroom is on the opposite side of the building from where the crane fell, he said.Newsroom employees became accustomed to working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He doesn’t expect a return to a newsroom for the foreseeable future. Still, he said he hoped the newspaper would eventually secure space where everyone would be able to work together again.
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