Featuring Appearances by
Janine Zeitlin
Janine Zeitlin, a storyteller for The News-Press, has been a journalist in South Florida for 16 years. She’s covered everything from pollution in the Gulf of Mexico to a failed coup to the heaviest kid on a high school football team.
Michael Braun
Michael Braun has been a journalist for 39 years, the past 11 with The News-Press; For 25 years before Braun joined The News-Press, he was at The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, as a reporter covering labor unions and utilities, outdoors editor and columnist, copy editor and page designer. Braun started his career at The Morning Journal in Lisbon, Ohio. Braun is a graduate of Youngstown State University with a degree in media communications. Braun is a native of Peoria, Ill., with stops along the way in Akron, Youngstown, Salem and Lisbon, Ohio.
Sheldon Zoldan
Sheldon Zoldan, a native of Ohio, has been at the News-Press since 1986 in various roles as a business writer, metro reporter and a metro editor. A graduate of Ohio State before they added the The to it, he has worked at various magazines, a one-of-a-kind cable company and newspapers.
Charles Runnells
Charles Runnells covers arts and entertainment for The News-Press and news-press.com. You’ll often find him sitting in a theater scribbling notes for a play review. Charles was born in Birmingham, Ala., but he grew up all over the place thanks to his Army father. He has a journalism degree from Auburn University and started working at The News-Press in 1998. He’s obsessive about music (practically anything, but especially heavy metal), and he also loves reading, video games, yoga and movies. He lives in Cape Coral with his girlfriend and their five cats (don’t judge).
Amy Bennett Williams
Amy Bennett Williams came to The News-Press in 1988 as an ashtray-emptying, obituary-writing clerk/reporter, and has gone on to cover everything from cake contests to tuberculosis outbreaks. In addition to writing features and news articles, Williams helped conceive the paper’s weekly Tropicalia magazine, where her column, Field Notes appears. Her sense-of-place essays air weekly on local NPR affiliate WGCU. She lives in rural Alva with her writer husband, Roger, two sons and an ever-changing menagerie.
Agenda
October 12, 2017
Behind the Headlines: Janine Zeitlin - Robbery on "The Rock"
Janine shares her story of working as a reporter covering Marco Island as one of her first job when arriving to Southwest Florida. Hear the story of a cub reporter's introduction to the meaning and mayhem of paradise.
October 12, 2017
Behind the Headlines: Michael Braun - 'Finding a new path in journalism'
Michael Braun joined the staff of The News-Press in 2005 as a page designer after a 30-year career in journalism as a reporter, editor, columnist and designer. However, a huge industry change five years into his tenure at the paper put that career, his future and that of his family, in jeopardy.
October 12, 2017
Behind the Headlines: Sheldon Zoldan - Working for Larry Flynt
This is my true confession. I once worked for a pornographer. Larry Flynt was a media obsession before we had 24-hour news channels, the internet and social media. He was at the peak of his power, selling 3 to 4 million Hustler magazines a month, and he used that pulpit to megaphone his views and eviscerate his enemies.
October 12, 2017
Behind the Headlines: Charles Runnells - 'Do Ghosts Exist?'
Are ghosts real? Charles gets a spooky tale to help answer a skeptic's argument.
October 12, 2017
Behind the Headlines: Amy Bennett Williams - 'Mama Bear vs. Mother Nature'
What happens when mother natures rears its head near a mama bear. A Florida family story. Introduction by Cory O'Donnell.