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Jim RosicaMay 16, 2016

Former Tampa Tribune staffers are hoping what the internet takes away, it can also give back. Several reporters, editors, designers and others have banded together to find work through social media using the hashtag, #HireATribber. Elaine Silvestrini, the former Tribune courts reporter who came up with the idea, has become the group’s unofficial leader and cheerleader in chief. […]

Mitch PerryMay 13, 2016

Well, so much for that much-anticipated San Antonio-Golden State NBA Western Final. Congrats to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who took down the Spurs in six. Gotta love the unexpected. Today the Republican Party of Florida hosts the first of a two-day spring meeting in Tampa. I just realized the Republicans always hold these type of […]

Peter SchorschMay 6, 2016

On Wednesday, Robert Trigaux penned a column asking “three pointed questions” for Duke Energy in the fallout of a flat quarterly earnings report and its annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, N.C. Trigaux prefaces his piece by proposing a mild winter is what brought lower demand for power – hence the softer earnings report. Next, he […]

Martin DyckmanMay 4, 2016

Early in 1955, when I was a sophomore at Florida State University, I thought about applying for a summer job at the Clearwater Sun, the now-defunct newspaper where I had been a student correspondent and had already spent one vacation. That’s when Momma Bird kicked me out of the nest. “You’ll do no such thing,” […]

Jim RosicaMay 4, 2016

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News of The Tampa Tribune’s demise left Allison North Jones “crestfallen,” she said. Jones, a capital bureau reporter for the Tribune from 2003-06, is one of a handful of former employees still in Tallahassee. “My instant reaction was just a little bit heartbroken,” said Jones, who now owns her own PR firm in town, on Wednesday. “I […]

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 […]

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Got a job? #HireATribber

Mitch Perry Report for 5.13.16 – Friday 13th edition

Responding to Times reporter Robert Trigaux’s ‘three pointed questions’ for Duke Energy

Martin Dyckman: A salute to the Tampa Tribune and its fine journalists

Tampa Tribune alumni in Tallahassee mourn the loss

Gary Shelton: The loss of the Tampa Tribune is difficult for this former rival

Patrick Manteiga was right about demise of Tampa Trib; so was Noah Pransky

Mitch Perry Report for 5.4.16 — Trib out

Paul Tash’s real answers for Tampa Tribune readers

Tampa Bay Times purchases the Tampa Tribune