Elithia Stanfield hit the unmute button and seemed to speak for most of the people on the Zoom call.
“I love newspapers,” said the 68-year-old Pinellas Park resident, explaining why she wanted to be part of the new Tampa Bay Times Community Reader Panel. “I like the feel of them in my hands. I’m aware of the challenges. But I don’t want to lose them.”
Stanfield, a former assistant county administrator for Pinellas County, and more than three dozen other members of the reader group gathered for a first meeting with senior leaders of the Times late last month.
