Times Publishing Company

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Times Publishing Company is a newspaper and magazine publisher. Its flagship publication is the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times), a daily newspaper serving the Tampa Bay area. It also publishes the business magazine Florida Trend and the daily newspaper tbt*.

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Times Publishing Company is based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is owned by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism school in St. Petersburg. The current chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Company is Paul Tash, who also serves as editor of the Tampa Bay Times.

On January 1, 2012, the St. Petersburg Times was renamed the Tampa Bay Times, with tbt* (which was an acronym for "Tampa Bay Times") only referred to by that name. [1]

Properties

The Times Publishing Company owns several other publications, most of which are co-branded with the Tampa Bay Times. [2]

The Times owned and published an evening newspaper, the Evening Independent , from 1962 until its closure in 1986. [11] Issues of the Evening Independent are available for viewing on Google News Archive. [12]

On May 3, 2016, the Times Publishing Company announced the purchase of the Times' competing newspaper, The Tampa Tribune , from Revolution Capital Group, saying it intends to create one financially secure, locally owned daily newspaper in the Tampa Bay region. [13] The Times ended publication of the Tribune on that day. The Times' acquisition of the Tribune also includes the following publications, which will continue publishing:

Highlands Today was sold and closed later in 2016.

References

  1. St. Petersburg Times: "The St. Petersburg Times will become the Tampa Bay Times on Jan. 1", November 1, 2011. Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "About Us". St. Petersburg Times. 2010. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  3. "St. Petersburg Times Electronic Edition". Archived from the original on December 5, 2007. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  4. "Florida Trend media kit" . Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  5. "Tampa Bay Newspapers General Information" . Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  6. "Tampa Bay Newspapers 2010 Rate & Information Guide" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  7. "tbt* media kit". Archived from the original on 2010-05-03. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  8. "tb-two* about us". Archived from the original on May 3, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  9. "Senior Living Guide Online Media Kit". Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  10. "Tampa Bay Expos" . Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  11. "St. Petersburg Daily to Merge With Sister Paper in Florida". New York Times . Associated Press. 1986-10-30. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
  12. Shankland, Stephen (September 8, 2008). "Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead". CNET News . CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  13. Tampa Bay Times:" Tampa Bay Times purchases Tampa Tribune" May 3, 2016.