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Phil AmmannMay 4, 2016

You live from headline to headline and from deadline to deadline. Those are the rules. You try to make this story sharper than yesterday’s. You try to squeeze out the money quote. You try to get one source, one more fact, one more comment. You work until the ink stains your fingers and, sometimes, your heart. […]

Peter SchorschMay 4, 2016

The shock from the news that the Tampa Bay Times has purchased and folded the Tampa Tribune has yet to wear off. In fact, there are probably a few hundred (maybe thousands) subscribers to the Trib who don’t pay attention to social media (think of all those seniors at Sun City Center) and were likely […]

Mitch PerryMay 4, 2016

The news yesterday that the Tampa Bay Times bought and absorbed the assets of the crosstown rival Tampa Tribune marks the end of rumors which I can recount starting back in 2008. That’s when stories surfaced that the paper would fold after the 2009 Super Bowl. That didn’t come to pass. Then the rumor was the […]

Peter SchorschMay 4, 2016

An earlier draft of a Q&A on the Tampa Bay Times’ acquisition/homicide of the Tampa Tribune has been discovered. Thank you to the anonymous source who forwarded this. SUBSCRIPTION & DELIVERY I subscribe to both papers. What do I do? — We’ll consolidate your subscriptions. But don’t even think of canceling the Tampa Bay Times — we […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMay 3, 2016

The Tampa Bay Times, the largest newspaper in the state, announced Tuesday it had purchased the Tampa Tribune. In a statement posted Tuesday to the Tampa Bay Times website, Paul Tash, the chair and CEO of the Times, said the purchase puts the paper “on solid financial footing and gives the Tampa Bay region an […]

Phil AmmannMay 1, 2016

A roundup of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — St. Petersburg commits unforced errors on stadium site search St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman has a curious way of building public enthusiasm to invest in a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. First his chief of staff insults North Pinellas fans […]

Mitch PerryApril 29, 2016

Good morning, y’all. Regular readers of this column may note that it’s being posted a little later this morning. Not to get into Too Much Information, but let’s just say I think when I read Arianna Huffington write that you must have 7/8 hours a sleep every night, well, one can certainly aspire to that. Rumor has […]

Bob SparksApril 25, 2016

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Senate President-elect Joe Negron was back in school this week. Not as a student, but as a legislative leader looking for on-the-ground information designed to help craft the 2017-18 education budget. Negron will push for $1 billion in extra spending for colleges and universities. While students are traditionally fond of road trips, Negron and four […]

Bob SparksApril 24, 2016

Senate President-elect Joe Negron was back in school this week. Not as a student, but as a legislative leader looking for on-the-ground information designed to help craft the 2017-18 education budget. Negron will push for $1 billion in extra spending for colleges and universities. While students are traditionally fond of road trips, Negron and four […]

Phil AmmannApril 24, 2016

A roundup of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — DCF should reverse position on LGBT protections The Department of Children and Families was wrong to discard language in its new policy that would have protected foster children in group homes from being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation or gender […]

Tag: Tampa Bay Times

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Tampa Bay Times purchases the Tampa Tribune

A roundup of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

Mitch Perry Report for 4.29.16 – Trib frowns on Go Hillsborough vote

Bob Sparks: Joe Negron’s bus tour should hear the sounds of a changing workforce

Bob Sparks: Joe Negron’s bus tour should hear the sounds of a changing workforce

A roundup of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers