Janet Coats
Janet Coats (born May 6, 1963, in Cleveland, Tennessee) is new media journalism director for the Patterson Foundation in Sarasota, Fla.[1] Formerly she was executive editor of The Tampa Tribune.>[2]
Biography
Coats grew up in
Stuart (Fla.) News, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Wichita (Kansas) Eagle and Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune
, finishing at that paper as executive editor.
She was briefly dean of the faculty of the Poynter Institute[4] before joining the Tribune in 2005. She advanced there, finishing as executive editor and vice president of the news operation at Florida Communications Group in 2009.
She joined the Patterson Foundation in 2010.[1]
Coats served as a juror for the
American Society of Newspaper Editors
from 2003 until 2009.
She has three children.
References
- ^ a b Patterson Foundation New Media Journalism Facebook page
- ^ Sasso, Michael (18 December 2009). "Tampa Tribune executive editor Coats leaving post". The Tampa Tribune. Archived from the original on 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ a b ASNE site
- ^ Poynter site
- ^ Pulitzer site