Kerry Sheridan
Kerry 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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Tomasko says seagrass in Little Sarasota Bay declined by about 40% with the pass closed, but didn't disappear. About 600 acres of seagrass remains, covering as much as one third of the area. -
Culture war issues ratcheted up tensions during the pandemic years, and Florida continues to lead the nation in book removals. -
Across Florida, landlord-tenant disputes are being exacerbated by disastrous storms like Hurricane Helene. Experts say state law tends to favor the landlords. -
The plaintiffs say the problem is particularly acute in Miami-Dade, Broward, Duval, and Orange counties, which have large Black populations. -
Florida's springs are threated by pollution and nitrogen runoff that lead to algae growth and interfere with habitat for manatees, fish, turtles and otters. -
Florida residents decried the announcement of a plan to add pickleball courts and golf courses to nine state parks. -
![All three of Sanford’s drainage basins discharge into Lake Monroe, which is in itself a basin to the St. Johns River. A basin, or watershed, is an area that collects, stores, and transports water to a certain point; Sanford Public Works Manager Mike Cash describes it as “wherever that water [in Lake Monroe] arrives <i>from</i>.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5b1d0da/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1760x981+0+170/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fa9%2Fcc%2F1245a19a433ba44607924d9eb62c%2Fcentral-florida-flooding-5.jpg)
Dr. Edwin Everham monitors frog populations and is a professor of ecology at Florida Gulf Coast University. -
The board's resolution defines sex as male or female, acknowledges the importance of single-sex bathrooms and directs the superintendent to consider no policy changes while legal challenges play out. -
Corcoran's bonus was already laid out in a compensation package approved last year. -
A small butterfly that is native to Florida is making a remarkable comeback after being thought to be gone from the region.
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Some butterflies are disappearing — falling to factors like pesticide use and loss of habitat. A native butterfly is making a surprising comeback in Florida, where it was thought to be wiped out.
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Atalas are small butterflies with inky black wings that are speckled with iridescent blue spots, and a bright red body.
![All three of Sanford’s drainage basins discharge into Lake Monroe, which is in itself a basin to the St. Johns River. A basin, or watershed, is an area that collects, stores, and transports water to a certain point; Sanford Public Works Manager Mike Cash describes it as “wherever that water [in Lake Monroe] arrives <i>from</i>.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d11be2b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1760x981+0+170/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fa9%2Fcc%2F1245a19a433ba44607924d9eb62c%2Fcentral-florida-flooding-5.jpg)
