Anne GeggisAugust 4, 2021
4min1112
Spring Hill Rep. Blaise Ingoglia took issue with a Tampa Bay Times inquiry.
Tag: Poynter Institute
Anne GeggisAugust 4, 2021
Peter SchorschJanuary 27, 2021
6min1766
Tash allegedly took a pay cut in 2020, but why not sooner?
Peter SchorschDecember 23, 20194min910
Other Poynter executives also saw a pay bump.
Janelle Irwin TaylorAugust 14, 2019
4min2305
The lien signals ongoing financial trouble for the Times.
Peter SchorschJanuary 30, 2019
3min356
Veteran journalist Sherri Day and Poynter Institute VP Kelly McBride will join the board.
Peter SchorschJuly 14, 20176min1116
Responding to columns and questions from Florida Politics and other local media, Jeff Vinik confirmed Friday that he is, indeed, one of four “secret lenders” who provided a $12 million loan to the Tampa Bay Times. “I am happy to confirm that I am part of the investor group, FBN Partners, which recently formed to […]
Phil AmmannMay 8, 2017
4min380
Poynter Institute President Tim Franklin is resigning to become senior associate dean at the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing at Northwestern University. Franklin joined the St. Petersburg-based nonprofit journalistic foundation in 2014, leading “a financial turnaround at the Institute and adapted Poynter’s business to the changing industry,” according to the news release. […]
Mitch PerryNovember 15, 2016
8min593
Count Dan Rather as among those political commentators who describe the rise of Donald Trump as being part of the “post-truth” political era. “What I mean by that is that heretofore it’s been taken as a given and was a fact that truth counted for something,” the iconic reporter/news anchor told a packed audience last Friday night at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront […]
Jim RosicaJuly 22, 2016
5min407
The times, they are a-changin’ at the Florida Press Center. Since 1988, the tan three-story building in downtown Tallahassee has been the home-away-from-home for many of the state’s newspapers, wire services and television and radio stations. (It replaced another building torn down to make way for what is now downtown’s Kleman Plaza.) But the Florida Press Association […]
Peter SchorschMay 22, 2016
7min1285
Paul Tash, the chairman and CEO of The Tampa Bay Times, comes away as just another cold-hearted executive in a New York Times story about the sale and shuttering of the Tampa Tribune. “Bad things have to happen for good things to happen,” Tash says in response to criticism that the Poynter Institute-owned newspaper was “avaricious” regarding its […]