Nicolas B. Tatro
Visiting Instructor: Multimedia
Journalism
B.S. Journalism, University of
Florida
Phone: 904-620-2651
E-mail: Nick.Tatro@unf.edu
Office: Building 14D, Room 2018
Nicolas B. Tatro came to the
University of North Florida in 2011 after working for the Associated Press news
agency as a foreign correspondent and manager. He began a nearly 40-year career
at AP in the Miami bureau in 1971 before moving to New York to be an editor. He
later lived and reported in Cairo, Beirut, Tehran and Jerusalem, where he
served as bureau chief. He became AP’s Deputy International Editor in 1999 overseeing
correspondents abroad and the editing desk in New York. As a manager, he
pioneered multi-format journalism that added television to AP’s toolkit in
Jerusalem and traveled to Bangkok, Mexico City, London and Cuba to train staff
and assess operations. He retired from the AP in 2010. Awards included the APME
Reporter of the Year award in 1982 for overseeing the Lebanon War coverage. He
began his journalism career at UF’s Florida Alligator and went on to report for
the Gainesville Sun and Daytona Beach News Journal (1970). He has taught
Multimedia Reporting, Advanced Writing for the Media, Media Literacy and
International News reporting at UNF and Stetson University. He came to UNF in
2011 as an adjunct. He served on the board of the Overseas Press Club in New
York and was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in 2004. He
served as president of the Foreign Press Association in Israel from 1996-99 and
was a member of the Foreign Press Association in Cairo from 1977-80. He earned
a fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1990-91 and received a fellowship
from the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C., to train
journalists at the Kuwait News Agency after the first Gulf War in 1992.