Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

One year ago, Tampa’s own Roxanne Escobales came back from the U.K. after 7 years abroad. A former Creative Loaf-er in her 20’s, Roxanne went on to work for big media sources during her time in London. Upon her return to Tampa, she quickly joined the WMNF family as a volunteer reporter (becoming News Volunteer of the Year last year), and when beloved staff reporter Andrew Stelzer left the station last summer, Roxanne was hired on.

Friday was her last newscast on WMNF. Tomorrow she’ll board a plane to head back to England to do international news and spend time with her friends and family on the other side of the ocean.

During her short stay, she covered at least one story per day on events that directly affects each of us here in Tampa Bay, notably the Centro Ybor building, various city council meetings and November’s election. Roxanne and I shared many cigarette breaks (even though I don’t smoke) on ‘MNF’s back patio where she advised me on writing, dream chasing and not being afraid of Eric Snider.

Roxanne, a Tampa Bay native, did good for us and now heads off to do more - on a larger scale - as a citizen of the world.

In other news, on my radio show this Monday morning, my guest host was WMNF’s Assistant News & Public Affairs Director Mitch Perry.

Check out Mitch’s indie rock playlist and go to the archives to listen to us chat about news outside of the mainstream media. On March 26th, CL’s Wade Tatangelo will guest host and the first Monday of April will be the Sporadic Ska Show.

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