Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson was named managing editor of the Tampa Bay Times in January 2012. Prior to becoming managing editor, he was responsible for enterprise and investigative reporting, foreign and national coverage, features, and the Sunday paper as managing editor for enterprise.
In 2009 a member of his writing staff, Lane DeGregory, won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “The Girl in the Window,” which also won the National Headliner award and several regional and state awards. A second journalist on his staff, John Barry, was a finalist for the Pulitzer in features. In recent years Wilson's writers have won numerous national prizes, including two ASNE awards for feature writing and several Ernie Pyle awards for human-interest writing. Before becoming an editor, Wilson won national and regional awards for feature writing, and in 1998 was part of a three-person team whose reporting on a corrupt Baptist minister was a finalist for the Pulitzer for investigative reporting.
Wilson came to the Times in 1995 after 12 years as a writer and editor at the Miami Herald. He has written two books, Right on the Edge of Crazy (1993), about the U.S. downhill ski team, and The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison (1997), about the chief executive of Oracle Corp.
A native of Connecticut, he graduated from Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
Contact
Tel: 727-892-2924
Fax: 727-892-2327
Email: mike@tampabay.com
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