Our thanks to everyone in Tallahassee and the Florida Legislature who participated in the opening of our new satellite office and video recording studio at 225 Adams Street last week.
We're truly excited by what the move represents. No other news organization has a studio quite like this. Intentionally located only steps from the Capitol, the studio offers easy access to movers, shakers and newsmakers.
Whether you're a visiting CEO here to lobby a bill and rushing up the street to appear before a Senate committee, or the in-coming House speaker on his way to address a Governor's Club function, we invite you to pause on your jaunt along Adams Street to share what's on your mind. Our video camera is waiting.
To announce the new office and demonstrate what we're doing there, videographer Lane Wright moved our studio outside for two hours at lunchtime Wednesday and Thursday (April 7-8), setting us up in the commons area in front of Tallahassee City Hall (directly opposite our new Adams Street digs).
There, we immediately set about producing our first "Florida Minute" segments. Florida Minute is a new video feature you will find on the main page of the edition, or embedded and archived in SNAP, another standing feature that also allows our visitors to upload their own videos and photographs for display on our Web site.
Both are features unique to Sunshine State News. And although less than a week old, Florida Minute already is proving its potential.
We've produced 25 Florida Minute segments with, among other newsmakers, Tea Party member Kay Durden, Martin County Sheriff Bob Crowder, Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp, House Speaker-designee Rep. Dean Cannon, college student government representatives Christopher Lamm and Johny Williamceau, Rep. Hazel Rogers, Senators Mike Fasano and Dan Gelber, Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists President Carl Adams, Associated Industries of Florida President and CEO Barney Bishop, Sunrise City Commissioner Donald Rosen, uber lobbyist Ron Book, Florida Petroleum Council President David Mica, American Renewables CFO Albert Morales, and Florida Retail Federation President and CFO Rick McAllister.
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There's still more to come from Sunshine State News, the best online news organization in Florida. So, stay tuned.
Publisher John Wark can be reached at jwark@sunshinestatenews.com, or at (850) 321-6490.
