Craig Pittman

Craig Pittman is an award-winning journalist, author, and lifelong Floridian. For 30+ years at the Tampa Bay Times, he covered politics, the environment, and Florida’s quirkiest stories, celebrating and critiquing the state’s unique character.

New documentary closes saga of Florida’s ‘obscene’ cartoonist

Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana is available on Amazon Prime, where anyone with an Internet connection can see both Diana’s controversial drawings as well as the surreal path that justice took with his prosecution and punishment.

By Craig Pittman

/ 2 Oct 2020

Florida courts turn to Zoom, quickly find the pitfalls

The Tallahassee court hearing had just begun when the obscene interruption happened. In Florida’s capital, the head of the local Republican Party was suing to overturn the County Commission’

By Craig Pittman

/ 5 Aug 2020