Kerry Sheridan
Reporter/HostKerry Sheridan is a reporter and co-host of All Things Considered at WUSF Public Media.
Prior to joining WUSF, she covered international news, health, science, space and environmental issues for Agence France-Presse from 2005 to 2019, reporting from the Middle East bureau in Cyprus, followed by stints in Washington and Miami.
Kerry earned her master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002, and was a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting.
She got her start in radio news as a freelancer with WFUV in the Bronx in 2002. Since then, her stories have spanned a range of topics, including politics, baseball, rocket launches, art exhibits, coral reef restoration, life-saving medical research, and more.
She is a native of upstate New York, and currently lives with her husband and two children in Sarasota.
You can reach Kerry via email at sheridank@wusf.org, on Twitter @kerrsheridan or by phone at 813-974-8663.
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The new outlook for the budget was presented by a team of financial experts at Hillsborough County Schools. Some board members asked for more details on how the accounting had changed, and board member Karen Perez requested a forensic audit. -
The Florida Department of Health reported a positivity rate of 4.99 percent, the lowest since March 12.
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Dr. Patricia Emmanuel says once children 12 and up are able to get vaccinated in the coming months, that will be a "game-changer" for how schools proceed with coronavirus prevention measures.
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More than 8.7 million people in the state have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, or about 36 percent of the state’s population.
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The state Department of Education says federal emergency relief money for schools — amounting to nearly $500 million for Hillsborough County — will not be available until July, and that board members shouldn't count on it to fix its budget crisis.
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The positivity rate of 5.95% was the lowest since March 26, when it was 5.69%. The state reported an additional 5,464 cases.
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The positivity rate for those testing positive for the first time dipped to a three-week low at 6.19%.
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Florida received its portion of the federal relief money in late March, and is supposed to disburse it within 60 days.
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Some activists hope that the verdict will lead to a change in police behavior.
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A computer model that's been used to track red tide and Tampa Bay's response to Hurricane Irma is now being adapted to follow the dispersal of contaminated runoff from the old phosphate plant.
