Keith Britton

Editor’s note: Responded to Oviedo Community News through email.

Age: 67

Registered political party: Republican

Where they live: Oviedo

Where they work: Britton is currently a senior project manager for different engineering and construction efforts.

Prior work experience: Britton has over 40 years of aerospace and engineering experience which include working at Rockwell International as a quality control inspector and a project manager for NASA.

Prior political experience: Britton has been a part of the Oviedo City Council since 2006 and has ran unopposed for the past several elections. He was appointed to the city board of adjustments in 1998 and a year later joined the city’s Land Planning Agency which he served as vice chairman in 2005. Britton has also been the council’s representative on the Economic Development Committee. He’s served over 12 years on the Council of Local Governments in Seminole County, and the Community Service Block Grant Advisory Committee. 

Link to their website: Keith Britton

Author

Megan is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Oviedo Community News, the only independent news source for Greater Oviedo and Winter Springs. She oversees editorial content, policy and staff. She attends meetings, sends out the e-newsletter and curates conversations in the community to understand the information gaps that OCN needs to fill. She also works to create partnerships that can strengthen the bond between community and newsroom.

She has served as an award-winning community journalist for more than 20 years, including as associate editor for the East Orlando Sun and a reporter for the Seminole Voice, the Winter Park-Maitland Observer and Orlando Magazine.

In 2024, Megan was named Editor of the Year by the Society for Professional Journalism. With the Central Florida Foundation and Central Florida Public Media, she co-found the News Collaborative of Central Florida, a collective of independent local news outlets and aligned partners working toward a more informed and engaged Central Florida.

She served as treasurer for the Florida Press Club for seven years and has won awards from the Institute for Nonprofit News, the Florida Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalism. Megan holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism (now called the Reed College of Media) at West Virginia University.

Megan also loves yoga, running and playing board games with her family.