Mark Schreiner
Mark Schreiner has been the producer and reporter for "University Beat" on WUSF 89.7 FM since 2001 and on WUSF TV from 2007-2017.
In addition to serving as a producer, reporter, host and assistant news director, he serves as intern coordinator for WUSF News.
He has worked as an anchor, reporter and producer at radio stations in Tampa and his native Chicago since 1992. Mark graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a BA in Telecommunications/Radio in 1994.
Mark has won a number of honors as a reporter, including a pair of regional Edward R. Murrow awards, a Silver Telly award for the documentary, “Plant City Goes to War,” and multiple awards from the Associated Press Florida Broadcasters, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists.
Contact Mark at 813-974-8693, on Twitter @wusfschreiner or by email at mschreiner@wusf.org.
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Federal stats show 15,177 Floridians are hospitalized with COVID-19 — a level not seen since Aug. 9.
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Faculty Senate President Timothy Boaz expressed concern that the school has moved away from last year's “highly effective” plan that limited the number of COVID cases on campus.
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For the week ending on Thursday, the state reported an additional 150,118 cases of the coronavirus — the second highest weekly total, trailing only last week.
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CDC data show the state reported 25,991 new cases on Saturday. The five highest single-day reports of new cases have all come since Aug. 5.
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The CDC is now counting cases and deaths on the day they occur as opposed to when they were reported, leading to a large number of fatalities in Thursday's data.
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Wednesday's report of 24,753 new cases topped the previous high of 23,958 recorded on Friday.
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The CDC changed its numbers after the state said they were incorrect. Meantime, for the ninth straight day, COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida reached a record high, at 15,169, on Monday.
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The seven-day rolling average of cases climbed to an unprecedented 18,933 people.
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Thursday's report only trails the 21,683 cases reported on July 31. In addition, 12,888 people were hospitalized statewide with a COVID-19 diagnosis.
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For the week ending Thursday, the Florida Department of Health reported 110,477 people tested positive for the coronavirus — an almost sevenfold increase from just four weeks ago.