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Graham Brink - Editor of Editorials
Graham Brink

Editor of Editorials

My truck lacked AC when I first landed with the Times. Still, I loved pursuing stories along the backroads of Hernando County. It’s where I first began to appreciate the Times’ commitment to the Tampa Bay community. I’ve covered shady companies and way too many hurricanes. I’ve reported about Morocco after 9/11 and had a blast writing about racing a mountain bike 800 miles from the Okefenokee to the Everglades. I crossed over to editing for a dozen years and became the business columnist in 2018. Now I oversee our op-ed content as editor of the editorial pages. My wife makes me laugh. My son makes me want to change the world, at least our little part of it. The truck now has AC, but a good story still fires me up.

  1. How the Times makes its political recommendations | Column
    Aug. 14, 2020• Opinion
    Florida's primary election is Tuesday.
  2. Florida wasn’t exactly love at first sight for the Times’ new editor of editorials
    Jun. 5, 2020• Opinion
    Florida as seen from NASA's Goodard Space Flight Center in 2010.
  3. More Floridians out of work than anytime in history
    May 22, 2020• Business
    Server Nate Combs, of Clearwater, right, busses a table where customers from left, John Kokolakis, of Palm Harbor, Ed O'Brien, of Clearwater, Greg Bopp, of New Port Richey, and Richard Cotter, of Tampa, finish a business lunch on Friday at the Iron Oak New American BBQ in downtown Palm Harbor. Combs said the restaurant is staffed at 30-percent of its capacity.
  5. Florida lags in paying pandemic unemployment assistance to the self-employed
    May 20, 2020• Business
    Steve Hamilton poses for a portrait alongside his wife, Zhijun Hamilton, at their home in Sun City Center.
  6. Paycheck Protection loans: ‘Free money’ not flowing as fast as a month ago
    May 15, 2020• Business
  7. 2.9 millones personas más buscan asistencia por desempleo. ¿Podría el desempleo alcanzar el 25 por ciento?
    May 14, 2020• CENTRO
    Un hombre usa una máscara facial mientras camina por una tienda cerrada durante el brote de coronavirus en Chicago. 36 millones de personas han presentado reclamos por beneficios de desempleo , según el Departamento de Trabajo (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
  8. 2.9 million more seek unemployment assistance. Could unemployment hit 25 percent?
    May 14, 2020• Business
    More than 35 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the last eight weeks.
  9. The pandemic numbers are scary. How many more records will fall.
    May 8, 2020• Business
    Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by the coronavirus outbreak deepened the worst U.S. economic catastrophe in decades.
  10. Unemployment claims hit 33 million. How high could they go?
    May 7, 2020• Business
    Hospitality workers stage a demonstration over unemployment benefits outside a beauty salon in Orlando where Gov. Ron DeSantis was speaking at a news conference Saturday.
  11. Florida home builder sees big differences between coronavirus and the Great Recession
    May 4, 2020• Business
    Taylor Morrison's Esplanade at Artisan Lakes property in Manatee County.
  12. Is surging unemployment just the first domino to threaten Florida’s economy?
    May 2, 2020• Business
    Aerial view of an empty parking lot of the Westfield Brandon mall due to COVID-19 closures pictured on April 9 in Brandon.
  13. ‘It didn’t feel right to keep it.’ Tampa Bay businesses refuse their federal loans.
    May 1, 2020• Business
    The exterior of Luekens Wine & Spirits is seen Thursday in Dunedin.
  14. Nearly 30 million Americans file unemployment claims in six weeks
    Apr. 30, 2020• Business
    Restaurant worker Glen Pile, left, waits in line to get an unemployment form at a Miami-Dade County library on April 8.
  15. Tampa Bay residents growing more optimistic about the crisis but remain cautious
    Apr. 24, 2020• Business
    Clients line up for food at the Salvation Army's mobile food pantry in St. Petersburg last week.
  16. Florida let its unemployment benefits system crumble. Now we all pay the price.
    Apr. 23, 2020• Business
    Librarian Sharon Howes, right, hands a unemployment application to a driver at the Jan Kaminis Platt Regional Library Monday, April 13, 2020 in Tampa. Floridians have wrestled with the state's broken unemployment benefits system for weeks.
  17. Five weeks on, 26 million Americans out of work due to pandemic shutdowns
    Apr. 23, 2020• Business
    An unidentified employee at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library hands an unemployment application to a motorist Monday, April 13, 2020 in Tampa.
  18. Fraud, bad actors are inevitable with $350 billion federal loan program
    Apr. 20, 2020• Business
    The Paycheck Protection Program handed out $350 billion to small businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis.
  19. Many Tampa Bay small businesses left out as $349 billion relief fund drained
    Apr. 17, 2020• Business
    The Columbia Restaurant had already reconfigured their dining rooms in accordance with new social distancing guidelines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday, March 20, 2020 Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis ordered all restaurants to discontinue sit-in dining and offer take-out service only.
  20. 22 million Americans apply for unemployment benefits in less than a month
    Apr. 16, 2020• Business
    The number of people collecting unemployment benefits jumped again last week.
  21. How crazy are the U.S. jobless numbers? Beyond anything we’ve ever seen.
    Apr. 13, 2020• Business
    A worker gets a thumbs up as he hands out paper unemployment applications in south Florida last week.
  22. Half of Tampa Bay’s laid-off workers could run out of money in 19 days or less
    Apr. 10, 2020• Business
    A quarter of working residents of the Tampa Bay area have been laid off or furloughed, a report found.
  23. Tampa Bay businesses innovate to stay alive in the face of coronavirus
    Apr. 9, 2020• Business
    Tampa-based Whitney Transport hauls bulk materials to construction sites.
  24. Third wave brings another 6.6 million coronavirus jobless claims in the U.S.
    Apr. 9, 2020• Business
    Michael Newell of Tallahassee is one of the hundreds of thousands of Floridians who has lost his job amid the workplace shutdowns aimed at slowing the spread of the virus that causes the sometimes deadly Covid-19 respiratory disease.