Mark Klatches

As executive editor of the Tampa Bay Times, Mark Klatches leads Florida's largest newsroom. Mark is also the Founder of the Florida Climate Reporting Network. He previously served as editor and vice president of content at The Oregonian and OregonLive in Portland. Before that he was editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He built investigative reporting teams at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Orange County Register, and he directly edited Pulitzer winning projects in local reporting in 2008 and 2010. He served as a consulting editor on a third Pulitzer winner, in the public service category, in 2015. Stories he helped edit or oversee have been named finalists for the Pulitzer six times.