Patrick Fargason

Veteran journalist and government communications director Patrick R. Fargason, Sr., has joined the Journal & News as a senior editor.

Fargason, who started August 16, comes to the News from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, where he served as deputy communications director and helped coordinate the agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse that claimed 98 lives in Surfside.