Since October of 2018, Jennifer Hunt Murty has owned and operated Magnolia Media Company, publisher of Ocala Style, an award-winning monthly community lifestyle magazine currently in its 24th year. In July 2020, in response to the community’s need for substantive local news journalism, she created a daily digital, weekly print newspaper, the Ocala Gazette.  Finding herself short-handed in terms of reporting staff, Jennifer used the experience she had gained writing for Ocala Style and sourced stories herself, utilizing the investigative, research, and critical thinking skills she acquired during her over 17-year career as a paralegal. Jennifer’s extracurricular passions are centered around the arts and all things culinary.  In 2016, she co-founded the five-day Ocala Culinary Festival that brought national and international culinary talent to Ocala.