Season's greetings from the editors, photographers, writers and videographers who bring you 83 Degrees.
Thank you for reading and sharing with others the stories we produce about "What's New?'' and "What's Next?'' in the Tampa Bay region.
We appreciate your loyalty and look forward to producing even more stories in 2011 about talented people, innovative ideas, new jobs and smart developments that make the Tampa Bay region such a great place to live, work and play.
We also want to let you know this is the last 83 Degrees newsletter you will receive in 2010 as we take a winter break to spend time with family and friends. The
83 Degrees website will remain accessible to you and we'll be back with new images and fresh stories on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011.
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Diane Egner, Julie Busch, Matt Spencer, Missy Kavanaugh
and Kimberly Patterson
The 83 Degrees Media team
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Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.