{"id":112733,"date":"2024-10-11T01:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112733"},"modified":"2024-10-11T01:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:39:47","slug":"crane-collapse-from-milton-hits-building-housing-the-tampa-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112733","title":{"rendered":"Crane Collapse From Milton Hits Building Housing The Tampa Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the time Hurricane Milton <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/10\/weather\/st-petersburg-building-crane-hurricane-milton.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">caused a construction crane to crash<\/a> onto the building that houses The Tampa Bay Times late on Wednesday, the newsroom\u2019s journalists had already evacuated, fanning out across the region to cover the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMost people have been working around the clock, up all night,\u201d said Mark Katches, the editor of The Tampa Bay Times, calling from a suburban hotel that a handful of editors were using as a makeshift newsroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got people dispersed in safe locations across the state,\u201d Mr. Katches said. \u201cSome people even left the state. Many people on our staff have lost power or internet, but somehow we\u2019re managing to produce pretty impressive public service journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said no one from the news organization had re-entered the building to examine the condition of the newsroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Milton, which made landfall close to the nearby community of Siesta Key, Fla., on Wednesday, is the second hurricane that the 80-person staff of The Tampa Bay Times has had to cover in the last month. Hurricane Helene drenched Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast in late September, leaving parts of the region swamped with floodwater and without access to basic utilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It has been a challenging time for the newspaper, which has won 14 Pulitzer Prizes and is known for its hard-hitting investigations into prominent local and state institutions. In August, the newspaper announced that it was reducing its staff by 20 percent through buyouts because of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/24\/business\/media\/media-industry-layoffs-decline.html\" title=\"\">economic challenges faced by many local news publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although the buyouts took a toll on employee morale, Mr. Katches said that the company\u2019s journalists had rallied to provide strong coverage of the storms. All of the publication\u2019s coverage is getting published online only for now; Wednesday\u2019s print edition was not delivered because of the storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Katches said the newspaper\u2019s coverage on Thursday would focus on assessing the damage from Hurricane Milton. The storm destroyed the roof of nearby Tropicana Field, home to the Tampa Bay Rays professional baseball team, and collapsed houses across the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As of Thursday morning, Mr. Katches said, some employees for the newspaper were still unaware of the conditions of their own homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s not like you just have a story that\u2019s important to cover. Your lives are on the line and your family\u2019s lives are on the line, and you\u2019ve got to take care,\u201d Mr. Katches said. \u201cEveryone here is here because it\u2019s a calling for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The company\u2019s journalists are spread out in \u201cgo teams\u201d that include reporters and photographers in rented S.U.V.s. They\u2019re sending in their articles, videos and images using mobile hot spots. Staff members who evacuated are also helping edit stories and publish them online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday morning, the handful of editors with Mr. Katches were fielding that coverage with limited electricity in the hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re using cigarette lighters and going in shifts into our cars to charge laptops,\u201d Mr. Katches said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re doing until they turn the lights back on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/10\/business\/media\/tampa-bay-times-crane-hurricane.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time Hurricane Milton caused a construction crane to crash onto the building that houses The Tampa Bay Times late on Wednesday, the newsroom\u2019s journalists had already evacuated, fanning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112733\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}