SPx EP 88: Waveney Ann Moore - Journalist 12-23-22
Season 5, Episode 3293, Dec 28, 2022, 01:54 PM
From St. Pete Catalyst:
Waveney Ann Moore’s first St. Pete Catalyst byline appeared just over two years ago, on Nov. 25, 2020, and her weekly columns have enriched and elevated our journalistic output a thousandfold. The Guyana-born Moore began writing for us following her retirement from the Tampa Bay Times, where she’d been a well-known reporter and columnist for 24 years. “My husband’s been telling everybody, for the past couple of years since I retired from the Times, that I failed retirement,” she says with a laugh in this SPX interview with Catalyst publisher Joe Hamilton. This month, however, Moore is taking another shot at slowing down. After more than 100 Catalyst columns - about community, about equity and about the abundance of positivity amongst the people of St. Petersburg – she is now officially, no-turning-back retired. With Hamilton, she discusses her career, from earliest days in Kansas and Oklahoma, to her work for a Clearwater-based trade magazine and, finally, to the vaunted Times staff in 1994, where she began in neighborhood news before graduating to general assignment reporter. Moore was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1998 and 2010. Reflecting on her work with the Catalyst: “I learned a lot about the African-American community that I thought I knew, and I didn’t,” Moore says. “I learned a lot more. And I was able to focus on other minorities … I think it was definitely the people that I met, and the things that I learned, that’s what I value.” #stpetecatalyst #waveneyannmoore #tampabay #radio #radiostpete
Waveney Ann Moore’s first St. Pete Catalyst byline appeared just over two years ago, on Nov. 25, 2020, and her weekly columns have enriched and elevated our journalistic output a thousandfold. The Guyana-born Moore began writing for us following her retirement from the Tampa Bay Times, where she’d been a well-known reporter and columnist for 24 years. “My husband’s been telling everybody, for the past couple of years since I retired from the Times, that I failed retirement,” she says with a laugh in this SPX interview with Catalyst publisher Joe Hamilton. This month, however, Moore is taking another shot at slowing down. After more than 100 Catalyst columns - about community, about equity and about the abundance of positivity amongst the people of St. Petersburg – she is now officially, no-turning-back retired. With Hamilton, she discusses her career, from earliest days in Kansas and Oklahoma, to her work for a Clearwater-based trade magazine and, finally, to the vaunted Times staff in 1994, where she began in neighborhood news before graduating to general assignment reporter. Moore was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1998 and 2010. Reflecting on her work with the Catalyst: “I learned a lot about the African-American community that I thought I knew, and I didn’t,” Moore says. “I learned a lot more. And I was able to focus on other minorities … I think it was definitely the people that I met, and the things that I learned, that’s what I value.” #stpetecatalyst #waveneyannmoore #tampabay #radio #radiostpete