Journalist Rob Lorei, a co-founder of the community radio station WMNF, and the station’s Director of News and Public Affairs for 43 years, died Sunday morning. He was 70.
Lorei announced in March that he had been diagnosed with cancer, at the same time he resigned from the WEDU TV public affairs program “Florida This Week,” which he had hosted since 2001. He was also the show’s managing editor. Lorei continued at WEDU with the interview series Perspectives.
He moved to Tampa in 1978 from his native Pennsylvania to be part of the grassroots campaign to launch the community-driven, commercial-free WMNF…