Deputy business editor
St. Petersburg Times/tampabay.com
Becky Bowers started her journalism career at 18 as a reporter for her hometown daily, the Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record, while studying journalism at California State University, Chico. She joined the Times as a copy editor/designer in June 2002, and moved to the nation/world desk in January 2003. She worked as a wire editor, designer and copy chief — including a stint as national wire editor during the 2004 presidential election — and became Sunday/Monday news editor before joining business news in August 2007 as a business graphics reporter. She became online business editor in April 2008 and deputy business editor in January 2009. Under her care, money.tampabay.com has been top-rated by 24/7 Wall St. and earned a SABEW Best in Business award.
Four years of Poynter Institute summer fellows faced her pen and AP stylebook, as have Poynter publications such as Eyetracking the News and President Obama: Election 2008: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages. She has led sessions for Poynter seminars on online writing and advanced copy editing, as well as for the American Copy Editors Society, Florida Scholastic Press Association, Press Institute for Women in the Developing World and Poynter's Florida High School Writers Workshop. She and her husband, Jeremy, a news technologist for the Times, live in a 1920s bungalow a mile from the newspaper with their tiny supercharged dog, Beau. They coach high school and college debate teams, travel to eat and love cooking a lot more than they actually cook.
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