Parkland, Pollution & the Presidential Primary in Florida

Veteran Florida newswoman Rosemary O’Hara offers her insights on where we find ourselves two years after the nation’s worst high school shooting, a year after the state’s worst outbreak of red tide and blue-green algae, and a month before Florida’s presidential primary.

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About Rosemary O’Hara

Rosemary O’Hara is the editorial page editor of the South Florida Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. She began her reporting career at the Tampa Tribune, before moving to the Orlando Sentinel and later the Miami Herald. She’s also been an editor in Washington, Norfolk and Cincinnati.

A native of Upper Michigan, Rosemary grew up in Tampa and graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She has been a graduate fellow at Stanford, Columbia and the University of Southern California. She’s also served on a number of journalism boards, including the Florida Society of News Editors and the First Amendment Foundation.

In 2019, Rosemary was a member of the Sun Sentinel team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the many government breakdowns in and around the shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Rosemary regularly appears on television and radio in South Florida, and was named by Influence Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in Florida politics.

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