83 Degrees Media is thankful this holiday season to be celebrating our third birthday with readers around the globe.
We will continue to strive in the next year to bring you stories about influencers and innovators helping to move the Tampa Bay region of Florida forward in the new economy. Our model for content -- TIDE as in talent, innovation, diversity, environment -- continues to be on the forefront of what makes cities cool and the region attractive for individuals and for investors.
We do it each week in partnership with community stakeholders who underwrite stories in exchange for a positive branding presence offered by ads on our site. To learn more about opportunities to become an underwriter, please
contact Publisher Diane Egner.
Thanks to our underwriters and to all of you.
Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season!
The 83 Degrees Team
Diane Egner, publisher and managing editor
Julie Busch Branaman, managing photographer
Alexis Quinn Chamberlain, Development News editor
Kimberly Patterson, Job News editor
Megan Hendricks, Innovation News editor
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Diane Egner is a community leader and award-winning journalist with more than four decades of experience reporting and writing about the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. She serves on the boards of the University of South Florida Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications Advisory Council, The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council, Sing Out and Read, and StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. She also is a member of Leadership Florida and the Athena Society. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at WUSF Public Media. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Tampa Tiger Bay Club, USF Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP), Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Awesome Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Diane and her husband, Sandy Rief, live in Tampa.