Jim Ash
Jim Ash is a reporter at WFSU-FM. A Miami native, he is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience, most of it in print. He has been a member of the Florida Capital Press Corps since 1992.
Ash has worked variously as a reporter, columnist and bureau chief. His specialties include state politics, the judicial system and the environment. His career has included coverage of everything from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and Hurricane Andrew to the Florida presidential recount.
Ash is a graduate of the University of Iowa where he earned a degree in English. He spent his summers interning for newspapers, including the Austin-American Statesman in Texas.
A hiking enthusiast, Ash has explored most of the public trails in California's Big Sur. He is an avid reader who enjoys traveling, exploring the Big Bend, and water sports.
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A Miami federal judge gave final approval Tuesday to a settlement agreement in a decade-long legal battle between the Florida Academy of Pediatrics and... -
Experts are warning parents not to over expose young children to coverage of the Orlando mass slaying, but they stress answering questions truthfully. -
Hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, Leon County officials are asking the state for nearly $470,000 for a Zika emergency plan. Much of the... -
Business groups are sounding the alarm about a proposed 17 percent hike in workers compensation insurance rates. -
Pharmacy giant CVS says it will soon make the overdose-reversing drug Naloxone available at its Florida stores without a prescription. -
Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Graham is claiming a minor victory in the latest skirmish of Florida’s 30-year water war with Georgia and Alabama. -
Seminole County commissioners are adding their voices to the growing opposition to what would be the second bear hunting season in Florida since the 1970s. -
Vermont is shaking up the industry with a genetically modified food labeling law and that’s good news for Florida sugar growers. -
Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater’s campaign to force life insurance companies to search for beneficiaries won him a starring role on 60 Minutes. Now... -
Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones has landed in the Legislature’s cross hairs for plans to close a prison rehabilitation program...
