Janet Weaver

Janet Weaver is executive editor and vice president of the Tampa Tribune, where she supervises a newsroom staff of 300. Before joining the Tribune as managing editor in July 2004, Weaver served as dean of the faculty of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. Prior to that, Weaver was the executive editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where she supervised newsgathering for six zoned editions, a Web site and a 24-hour local cable news channel.

From 1994 to 1997, Weaver was the managing editor of The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle. She worked at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., from 1989 to 1994, starting as a reporter and working through the ranks to become deputy managing editor/features and sports. From 1986 to 1989, she was a reporter and assistant city editor of the Stuart (Fla.) News. Weaver is a member of the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She has chaired a number of ASNE committees, including the 2004 convention program committee.