From crime scenes to courtrooms, Mike Wells takes the audience with him to every assignment.

Most recently, Wells was a member of The Tampa Tribune’s online news team – the Continuous News Desk – providing content for TBO.com, the Tribune and the parent company’s television station, News Channel 8 (WFLA-TV).

His work has appeared in major metropolitan newspapers, magazines and online. Wells contributes broadcast reports to Sirius Satellite Radio and has appeared as a guest commentator on CNN Headline News and MSNBC.

Wells won a Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award for Online Investigative Reporting and is a two time winner for Feature Writing in the Missouri-Associated Press Managing Editors News Writing Contest.

He lives in a restored bungalow in the historic Ybor City district of Tampa, Fla.