The St. Petersburg Times Editorial Board

Posted: Mar 04, 2008 01:25 PM

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Philip Gailey, Editor of Editorials

Philip Gailey, 64, grew up on a farm outside Homer, Ga., and received a degree in journalism from the University of Georgia. He worked at the Atlanta Constitution, the Miami Herald, the Washington Star and the Washington bureau of the New York Times before joining the St. Petersburg Times as Washington bureau chief in 1987. In 1991, he was named editor of editorials. He also is a company vice president and a member of the Times Publishing Co. board of directors. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife, Joyce O’Neal Gailey. They have a son, Daniel.
pgailey@sptimes.com

Tim Nickens, Deputy Editor of Editorials

Tim Nickens, 49, grew up in Jeffersonville, Ind., and received a bachelor of arts degree from Indiana University. After a year at the Journal-Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind., he joined the St. Petersburg Times as a reporter in 1983. He worked for the Miami Herald from 1990-1995 before returning to the St. Petersburg Times. He was an editorial writer, political editor and assistant managing editor/metro before rejoining the editorial board in December 2004. He and his wife, Bridget, live in St. Petersburg with their two daughters.
tnickens@sptimes.com

Robyn Blumner, Editorial Writer and Columnist

Robyn Blumner, 46, grew up in Glen Cove, N.Y. She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in industrial labor relations and from New York University School of Law. She is admitted to the New York State Bar. She worked for 10 years as director of American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in Utah and Florida, before joining the editorial board in 1997. She writes a nationally syndicated Sunday column on civil rights, civil liberties, workers’ rights and gender issues. She lives in St. Petersburg with her husband, Damian Cristodero.
rblumner@sptimes.com

C.T. Bowen, Pasco Editor of Editorials

C.T. Bowen, 48, is a native of Olean in southwestern New York state. He earned a degree in mass communications from St. Bonaventure University and worked at the Jamestown Post-Journal and Syracuse Herald-Journal and Herald American before moving to Florida in 1987. He was a Pasco County-based reporter, bureau chief and columnist at the Tampa Tribune before joining the Times in 1998. He and his wife, Mary Beth, a public school teacher, live in Land O’ Lakes with their sons, Ryan and Kyle.
cbowen@sptimes.com

Jon East, Editorial Writer

Jon East, 52, grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C., and received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked at the Ocala Star-Banner and the St. Petersburg Evening Independent covering city and county government before joining the Times editorial board 22 years ago. He writes about education, state and local government issues. He lives in Clearwater with his wife, Janice, and has two daughters, Megan and Erika, who attend UNC-CH and the University of Florida.
jeast@sptimes.com

John Hill, Tampa Editor of Editorials

John Hill, 44, joined the Times editorial board in 1996. He was raised in Tampa, studied international relations at the University of South Florida and spent 1984 in Britain following the coal miner’s strike. Before joining the Times, he covered local and state government for The Ledger in Lakeland and was a computer-assisted reporting specialist for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Hill lives in Tampa with his wife, Sue.
jhill@sptimes.com

Bill Maxwell, Editorial Writer and Columnist

Bill Maxwell, 61, was born in Fort Lauderdale, was reared as a migrant farm worker and grew up in several cities on the U.S. East Coast. He graduated from Bethune-Cookman College with a double major in English and history. He then earned a master’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago and studied journalism at the University of Florida. He first joined the Times editorial board in 1994, left in 2004 to teach at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and returned to the Times in 2006. He lives in St. Petersburg and has two adult children.
bmaxwell@sptimes.com

Jack Reed, Editorial Writer

Jack Reed, 62, grew up in Orlando and earned degrees from the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida. He has worked for the Times since 1982 as a writer and editor and joined the Editorial Board in 1996. Among his awards are a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
jreed@sptimes.com

Diane Steinle, North Pinellas Editor of Editorials

Diane Steinle, 55, grew up in North Carolina and earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has been a reporter and editor for Times Publishing Co. since 1984 and a member of the Times editorial board since 1989. In 2005, she won first place for editorial writing in the Society of Professional Journalists’ national award competition. She lives in Clearwater and has two adult sons.
dsteinle@sptimes.com

Jeff Webb, Hernando Editor of Editorials

Jeff Webb, 52, joined the Times’ editorial board in 1992. He grew up in Tennessee, enlisted in the U.S. Air Force when he was 18 and left four years later to study literature and business administration at Delaware State College in Dover, Del. He began his newspaper career in 1978 with the Delaware State News and went on to work in various writing, editing and management positions at The Times in Trenton, N.J., and the North Jersey Herald-News in Passaic, N.J. He lives in Spring Hill with his wife Nancy.
jwebb@sptimes.com

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