Jonathan Capriel is an intern at the Tampa Bay Times covering police, fires and whatever else goes bump in the night. He previously worked with the investigations team looking into five deaths at a Tampa power company. He wrote several stories on Hurricane Irma and the Tampa serial killings.

He graduated from the University of Memphis and served as the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper The Daily Helmsman. During that time, he won the University of Georgia’s Betty Gage Holland Award for excellence in college journalism for his reporting on a gender wage gap among University of Memphis professors, which has persisted for more than 10 years. He also placed sixth in the Hearst Enterprise Reporting Award for coverage on a violent sorority hazing. Jonathan is a senior at the U of M and the editor-in-chief of the independent campus newspaper The Daily Helmsman.

In 2014, he worked as a general assignment reporter for The Commercial Appeal, Memphis’ largest newspaper. He was a reporter for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire in Washington D.C. during the summer of 2015. He covered business, crime and breaking news for The Baltimore Sun in summer 2016.

He’s lived most of his life in the Bluff City with his three dogs, two cats and other family members. He enjoys requesting public records, Martin Scorsese films and traveling. He's also a middle child.

Email Jonathan at jacapriel@gmail.com