Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email julioochoa@wusf.org.
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The city could face a $15,000 fine for the spill that happened on Aug. 8 in a canal that flows into the lake. -
Tropical Storm Elsa's center made landfall around 11 a.m. in Taylor County, a lightly populated area along north Florida's Gulf Coast. -
Tropical Storm Elsa is causing closures and cancellations as residents prepare for wind, rain and a possible storm surge. -
The red tide bloom comes within weeks of a major discharge of nutrient-rich water from the Piney Point phosphate plant into Tampa Bay. -
The National Guard dropped off pumps in an attempt to drain the reservoir before the hole in the earthen dam becomes larger. -
Health experts say when test results are delayed it impacts contact tracing and quarantine efforts that help prevent the disease from spreading. -
Small business owners traditionally wear many hats and the coronavirus pandemic has added a few more. -
It is the most ever reported by a state in a single day — exceeding New York's record set in April by more than 3,000 cases. Florida's governor has not issued a statewide mask order.
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As cases of the coronavirus surge across Florida, some suggest herd immunity could be a solution. It's the idea of fighting a disease by making a... -
More than a third of COVID-19 deaths in the United States so far happened at nursing homes. Now Congress is demanding answers from five of the companies...
