Janet Coats (born May 6, 1963, in

Cleveland, Tennessee Cleveland is the county seat of and largest city in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 47,356 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Cleveland metropolitan area, Tennessee (consisting of Bradley and neigh ...

) is new media journalism director for the Patterson Foundation in Sarasota, Fla. Patterson Foundation New Media Journalism Facebook page Formerly she was executive editor of

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Biography

Coats grew up in

Ooltewah, Tennessee Ooltewah ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. It is a community near Chattanooga. The population was 684 at the 2020 census. Ooltewah is an enclave in the city of Collegedale. History Ooltewah wa ...

.ASNE site A 1984 graduate of the University of Missouri with a bachelor of journalism degree, Coats began her career as a reporter at the Irving (Texas) Daily News,ASNE site later working as a reporter or editor at the Stuart (Fla.) News, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Wichita (Kansas) Eagle and Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, finishing at that paper as executive editor. She was briefly dean of the faculty of the

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Poynter site before joining

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in 2005. She advanced there, finishing as executive editor and vice president of the news operation at Florida Communications Group in 2009. She joined the Patterson Foundation in 2010. Coats served as a juror for the

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five timesPulitzer site and served on the board of the

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from 2003 until 2009. She has three children.

References

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