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Carrie Seidman

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Sarasota
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Covers:  Community issues in Sarasota and on Florida's Gulf Coast. Mental health.
Journalist, writer, author. Former lead columnist for Sarasota Herald Tribune, with a special interest in mental health

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Carrie Seidman’s Biography

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Carrie Seidman is an opinion columnist for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Florida, She is also the creator/producer of FACEing Mental Illness, a blog and podcast at faceingmi.substack.com that shares stories from people with lived mental health experience. A graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, Carrie was a reporter, critic and columnist for daily newspapers for 45 years. As a staff writer for the New York Times, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Albuquerque Journal, …

Carrie Seidman’s Journalist Portfolio

FACEing Mental Illness - The Art of Acceptance

FACEing Mental Illness - The Art of Acceptance

FACEing Mental Illness: The Art of Acceptance was a 2016-2017 Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism comm…

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The S Word

The S Word

Schizophrenia is a disease that causes tremendous devastation and loss, but often for reasons other than thos…

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Home to Havana

Home to Havana

Home to Havana, a Herald-Tribune special series, follows two former dancers who defected from Cuba and return…

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Dorothy's Choice

Dorothy's Choice

Dorothy Conlon embraced life with a sense of adventure, a lust for travel and a stoic forbearance of the trag…

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FACEing Mental Illness

FACEing Mental Illness

Sharing stories from people with lived mental health experience

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Articles

Asolo Rep's Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition

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By Carrie Seidman, Charles Giuliano
| Berkshire Fine Arts
Aria Rayes plays Dorothy. Photo by Adrian VanStee The cast of “A Year with Frog and Toad,” Asolo Rep’s 2025 summer family-friendly show.
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Sarasota Ballet Returns to The Joyce

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By Carrie Seidman, Charles Giuliano
| Berkshire Fine Arts
In a not particularly surprising reveal, The Sarasota Ballet has announced it will begin its 20th season under Director Iain Webb with a six-day, seven-performance run at The Joyce Theater in New York City prior to opening its home season in Sarasota in late October.
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Selby Gardens' 'Shared Light' Features Lynn Goldsmith's Floral Images Alongside Portraits of Patti Smith

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By Carrie Seidman
| Sarasota Magazine Verified
Neither Patti Smith, Selby Gardens’ inaugural artist in residence, nor Lynn Goldsmith, whose exhibition, Shared Light, opened at the gardens June 18, can exactly remember the first time they met. It was sometime in the mid-1970s; Smith was an influential member of New York City’s punk rock movement and Goldsmith was a photographer gaining a reputation for her celebrity portraits, mostly of musicians.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Sportwriter at the late departed Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I began my newspaper career on a typewriter (briefly).

How is social media changing news?

Almost entirely.
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