Alexis Muellner (“Milner”) started early in media. He was taking photographs and making mock radio shows on a battery-powered cassette recorder as a seven-year-old. 

He’s now in his 25th year with American City Business Journals; and in his 19th year as Tampa Bay Business Journal editor-in-chief, the longest-tenured newsroom leader in the newspaper’s history.

He was named to the post in 2004 after working in Miami for 14 years. He earned a master's degree in print journalism from the University of Miami and a B.A. in photography and communications from Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. His roots are in public radio, where credits include National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” “Crossroads,” and “Living on Earth.” He was an adjunct professor at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught the business and ethics of journalism and broadcast writing and reporting. He won the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his public radio series on the role of radio in Vietnam during the war.

His print journalism credits include the Miami Herald, Florida Trend, the New York Times, the Miami Daily Business Review, Quill, and the Sports Business Journal. He has twice received the national ACBJ Eagle Award, his company’s highest honor, for excellence in news. For TV, Muellner is a commentator for Bay News 9. As a volunteer, he’s chairman of the board of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (see his photographic portfolio on Instagram @alexismuellner) and serves on the board at the Tampa Bay Community Network, a Tampa nonprofit that provides video production services, training, and production crews for individuals and non-profits.