Claire McNeill
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I joined the Times in 2014, and the enterprise team in 2018. Selected features:
  • For a black therapist, protests and pandemic make for a heavy load
  • Life while Black, as told by one St. Petersburg couple
  • Senior year derailed, a high school journalist pushes toward one last deadline
  • The last days of Rosemarie Gabriele, Pasco County’s first coronavirus victim
  • TV anchor Gayle Guyardo moves - quietly - toward the future
  • The Coronavirus Lonely Hearts Club: A collective poem
  • QAnon conspiracy theorists find kinship on the Tampa Riverwalk
  • Do you remember the student who was shot at FSU? He's pretty sure we've all moved on.
  • In Zion Cemetery’s lost history, a glimpse of the memorial park it could become again
  • Who wants to listen to the angel of death?
  • He was at Stonewall 50 years ago. In St. Petersburg, he remembers the before and after.
  • The rush is on for Jollibee, a taste of home for Filipinos living in Tampa Bay
  • Behind the scenes at the Nutcracker, designer sews, pins, snaps, pulls, patches
I spent much of 2019 going deep on abortion's front lines in Florida:
  • Those on Florida’s front lines in the abortion battle know change is coming
  • A Florida abortion clinic braces for a Southern surge
  • A crisis pregnancy center in Florida wants to redefine choice
  • Young doctors find a calling on abortion’s front lines
  • At state Capitol, Roe v. Wade anniversary marked by cheers, despair
Pre-enterprise team work on higher ed, features and breaking news:
  • In union push at USF, adjunct professors push for more respect and a living wage
  • At UF, black students feel a reckoning on race is long overdue
  • At Florida Poly, a student suicide and a question: Could it have been prevented?
  • She needed help to go to college, so mom came along
  • A tangled quest for fairness as students accused of campus sex assault push back
  • At USF St. Petersburg, the ouster of another leader shows who's boss
  • For a Syrian student at Saint Leo University, home is 'wherever offers you safety and freedom'
  • Richard Spencer speaks, and Gainesville emerges weary but at peace
  • USF works to remake its muddled brand. Right now, ‘it doesn’t really say anything’
  • Take a number: Florida college campuses swamped by students who need counseling
  • Questions about equity persist as a proposed boost in Bright Futures aims to help top grads
  • Inside the metrics machine: USF uses big data to find, and help, overburdened students
  • Anything for Tyler: One Florida family risked everything to treat their son with medical marijuana
  • Sexual predator gets second chance, now faces 14 new charges
  • An item from the past renews memories for WWII veteran
​Arts and culture:
  • First person: How I gave up added sugar for an entire month
  • Taking a 12-hour train ride to Montreal for pastries and The National

Other bylines
Bon Appétit
  • ​Inside the National Pie Championships: Keep Calm and Carry Cool Whip

The Boston Globe (internship)
  • Solomon Islander who helped JFK save PT-109 crew dies
  • James Foley’s parents hope his values endure