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Claire McNeill - Enterprise Editor
Claire McNeill

Enterprise Editor

As the Times’ enterprise editor, I work with a talented team of writers and the broader newsroom to produce signature narrative and explanatory journalism. I also co-lead the Times’ internship program. Before becoming an editor in 2022, I spent seven years as a reporter covering general assignment news, higher education and enterprise features. My goal, then and now, is to bring complex ideas to life through artful stories, ones that tell you something new about our community and the people in it. I’m a South Jersey native, big-time reader and former bookseller. Creature comforts include Muji pens and good sentences. If there’s a story you want us to know about, just send me a note.

  1. Woman found dead in St. Petersburg, prompting suspicious death investigation
    Nov. 6, 2022• Crime
    Police are investigating a suspicious death in St. Petersburg.
  2. Man found shot and killed in Tampa overnight, police say
    Nov. 6, 2022• Crime
    Tampa police are investigating a homicide after a man was found with a gunshot wound overnight Sunday.
  3. Forecasters eye a rainy week for Florida as tropical system develops
    Nov. 6, 2022• Local Weather
    The National Hurricane Center is watching a low-pressure area that has a strong chance of developing into a tropical depression.
  5. Bottlenose dolphins, a familiar Tampa Bay sight, contain mysteries
    Nov. 23, 2021• Environment
    A bottlenose dolphin pops above the water and looks toward an Eckerd College research boat.
  6. In obituary for a vaccinated man, daughters share anger — and a plea
    Aug. 19, 2021• Health
    Clark Allen sits on a bench with grandchildren Colin Gentile and Maple Gentile during a May 2021 family visit — his first and only during the pandemic, in the short window in which Florida's COVID-19 caseload dropped.
  7. In Central Florida, a vanishing swath of dark sky still shines
    Aug. 3, 2021• Narratives
    At Kissimmee Prairie Preserve, people look through a custom-made telescope owned by Jim Pickering of Fort Lauderdale.
  8. After 57 years, a Florida woman reunites with the man who taught her about kindness
    July 9, 2021• Narratives
    Sherry Sacino and Willie James Bryant see each other for the first time in decades, during lunch at the Columbia Restaurant. Sacino and Bryant met in rural, 1960s South Carolina, where Sacino’s parents owned a gas station at which Bryant worked.
  9. Five years later, the pain of Pulse lingers
    June 9, 2021• Investigations & Narratives
    Photos, sayings, and tributes are seen outside of Pulse Saturday, May 29, 2021 in Orlando. On June 12, 2016 29 year-old Omar Mateen walked into the popular night club and killed 49 people and injured more than 50. The club has become a place for visitors to reflect on the tragic shooting.
  10. Pulse, una herida abierta en Orlando
    June 9, 2021• CENTRO
    Fotos, dichos y tributos se ven fuera de Pulse el sábado 29 de mayo de 2021 en Orlando. El 12 de junio de 2016, Omar Mateen, de 29 años, entró en el popular club nocturno y mató a 49 personas e hirió a más de 50. El club se ha convertido en un lugar para que los visitantes reflexionen sobre el trágico tiroteo.
  11. After Tampa Bay’s bruising, exhausting pandemic year, a shard of hope for some
    March 5, 2021• Health
    Mark Fernandez holds his mother, Peggy Jagars, while she cries remembering her son, Chuck Fernandez, who died last year because of the coronavirus. On March 1, he would have turned 54.
  12. Meet some of the longtime staffers who brought you the Tampa Bay Times
    March 3, 2021• Narratives
    In 2006, the year of record revenue for the then-St. Petersburg Times, the press runs were unbelievable. Some days were grueling. Some were beautiful. Joe Figiel liked the challenge.
  13. The end of an era as Tampa Bay Times plant prints its final papers
    March 3, 2021• Narratives
    Presses run at the Tampa Bay Times printing plant in St. Petersburg.
  14. Former Florida white nationalist reckons with his past, America’s present
    Jan. 23, 2021• Narratives
    Scott Ernest, 42, poses with a Celtic cross, which he describes as one of the most important and commonly used white supremacist symbols. "It was made by hand by a Stormfront member. I was telling everybody I was getting out of the movement, and I wanted nothing to do with it. He drove it all the way from eastern Oregon to Montana overnight to give me as a gift. He wanted me to stay." Ernest left the movement in 2016 and now lives in Lakeland.
  15. After Capitol riots, Trump’s Florida supporters huddle online, plan and wait
    Jan. 16, 2021• The Buzz on Florida Politics
    The scene outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, the day a violent pro-Trump mob attacked and breached the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, leaving five dead.
  16. Two weeks. Three lost. One Florida family ravaged by coronavirus.
    Dec. 17, 2020• Health
    Boyzell Hosey says goodbye with a single rose at the conclusion of a dual service at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in St. Petersburg Nov. 21, 2020, for his father Amos Hosey (Dec. 17, 1926-Nov. 5, 2020) and his brother Roy Hosey (Dec. 1, 1952 - Nov. 15, 2020).
  17. Tropical Storm Eta: Long night awaits Tampa Bay after day of torrential rain
    Nov. 12, 2020• Hurricane
    David Cox, 24, charges his phone while looking at Facebook as he relaxes on the floor while getting out of the stormy conditions by visiting the emergency shelter at the Lealman Exchange, 5175 45th St N, Wednesday in Lealman. "This weather is absolutely ridiculous," Cox said. "It's November. We shouldn't have tropical storms in November." Cox has been living on the streets for about two weeks after moving out from a place with his brother, he said. The emergency shelter at the Lealman Exchange is set up to accommodate about 100 people, down from 300 due to the social distancing precautions, according to Bill Adamson, shelter supervisor with the American Red Cross. The shelter opened around noon due to Hurricane Eta.
  18. Welcome to Florida’s Hendry County, home of heartland values and small-town tension
    Oct. 22, 2020• Narratives
    Karen Barrios, 13, skates past a mural of an American flag at LaBelle's Barron Park in early October.
  19. The Scrapbook: As Florida reopens, share your coronavirus artifacts, experiences
    Oct. 5, 2020• Health
    Share your photos, memories, words and mementos about the coronavirus pandemic in Tampa Bay.
  20. Apply for a Tampa Bay Times newsroom internship
    Sept. 1, 2020• News
    Summer 2020 Tampa Bay Times intern Natalie Weber takes notes during an interview on a catamaran.
  21. Life while Black, as told by one St. Petersburg couple
    Aug. 27, 2020• Narratives
    The Edwards family at their St. Petersburg home. Tori and Khyre Edwards' experiences have shaped their views as they try to impart wisdom to their daughters. From left are Emelia,19, Naomi, 2, and Makena, 5, along with mom and dad.
  22. Sarah Jaehn's pandemic sketchbook journal
    July 21, 2020• Health
    Pages from Sarah Jaehn's pandemic sketchbook journal.
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  23. The long, lonely days of summer
    July 15, 2020• Health
    Visitors walk through and shop at the new Marketplace area of the St. Petersburg Pier District. The new Pier opened even as coronavirus cases were rising.
  24. At homegrown marches, Pride goes back to its roots in protest
    July 1, 2020• News
    About 100 people march in downtown Tampa Sunday as part of a protest remembering those in the LGBTQ community that have been killed.