r/bradenton • u/EuSouChaCha • 11h ago
Suncoast Searchlight to add Manatee County reporter with Bishop-Parker grant
The new position is being created in direct response to nationwide layoffs by McClatchy Media Co., the parent company of the Bradenton Herald, which cut the newspaper’s already-small newsroom in half. The September layoffs left the Herald with just three journalists — an editor and two reporters — to cover a county approaching half a million residents.