Kerry Sheridan
Health News Florida ReporterKerry Sheridan is a reporter and co-host of All Things Considered at WUSF Public Media.
Prior to joining WUSF, she covered international news, health, science, space and environmental issues for Agence France-Presse from 2005 to 2019, reporting from the Middle East bureau in Cyprus, followed by stints in Washington and Miami.
Kerry earned her master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002, and was a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting.
She got her start in radio news as a freelancer with WFUV in the Bronx in 2002. Since then, her stories have spanned a range of topics, including politics, baseball, rocket launches, art exhibits, coral reef restoration, life-saving medical research, and more.
She is a native of upstate New York, and currently lives with her husband and two children in Sarasota.
You can reach Kerry via email at sheridank@wusf.org, on Twitter @kerrsheridan or by phone at 813-974-8663.
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At a Pinellas County School Board meeting Tuesday, teachers voiced frustration about having to instruct in-person and online students at the same time, as… -
The daily positive test rate for new coronavirus cases in Florida has remained below five percent for three days in a row, according to state health… -
The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 across the state fell this week, while the positive test rate for new cases averaged out to 5.6 percent… -
Florida suspended drinking at bars in late June, as some blamed a rise in cases of coronavirus on late-night drinking and lack of social distancing. -
An emergency meeting early Friday was called after a legal window opened for the board to go back to its Aug. 6 decision to postpone school reopening. -
Districts are deciding how to issue quarantine orders, and what metrics would merit a shutdown. -
Few details were immediately available about the child's death. She is the eighth person under age 18 to die of COVID in Florida since March. -
Students are moving in to their residence halls at local colleges. In the era of coronavirus, that means learning to follow a host of new protocols. -
It calls for students to wear masks made of solid material, unless they get a medical waiver, in which case a shield could be substituted. -
More people were reported to have died in Florida from coronavirus-related complications this week than any other week since the pandemic began. At the...
