The Tampa Tribune
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The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida, is one of two major newspapers published in the Tampa Bay area, second in circulation and readership to the St. Petersburg Times. The paper's tagline is "Life. Printed Daily." The Tribune, as well as the Richmond Times-Dispatch, are the flagship newspapers under the Media General banner.Daily publication of the Tribune started in 1895 when Wallace Stovall upgraded printing from once a week. In 1958, the struggling evening newspaper, the Tampa Daily Times, was bought out by the Tribune Company and was published until 1982. To this day, the logo for The Tampa Times continue to be displayed in the masthead on the front section, as a way for the Tribune to keep its trademark on the Tampa Times name, and to avoid confusion with the St.
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Press Publish 6: Rick Edmonds of Poynter on paywalls, print days, and the economics of newspapers
It’s Episode 6 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s media business analyst, and our topic is the business outlook for American newspapers.
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The newsonomics of Tribune’s metro agony
Soon, the next act of the Tribune newspaper agonies will play out. That’s agonies, as in a Biblical passion play. The Tribune papers have endured a special kind of agony, the Hell of Zell, but really their story is the story of metro newspapers throughout the U. S. and now largely across the developed world.
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Tampa Tribune Executive Editor Duke Maas resigns
Tampa Tribune Richard “Duke” Maas has resigned as executive editor of the Tampa Tribune. In an email to employees, Maas said the paper needs a “fresh perspective,” the Tribune reports:.
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The newsonomics of Rupert Murdoch, American publisher
State governments finally cracked down on Amazon’s sales tax exemption, and Jeff Bezos found a workaround: same-day-delivery of retail (“The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street”). European governments and the European Community have tried every which way to crack down on Google, and still Larry Page has found a way to continue to dominate the continent’s digital business.
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The newsonomics of near-term numerology
Think about this. The Tampa Tribune, a paper that would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago, sold this week for $9 million.
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FIOS TV exec: Cord cutting is growing, and changing the TV biz
Cord cutting is real, and it continues to grow: You might have heard that opinion before — but not necessarily from someone in the business of selling pay TV subscriptions. However, Verizon’s director of consumer video services Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, who is responsible for the company’s FIOS TV service, said as much in an interview with The Tampa Tribune Thursday (hat tip to Karl Bode).
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Best Online Resources for Following the GOP, Democratic Conventions
The 2012 election season will gain a lot of momentum with the upcoming party conventions -- the Republicans up first in Tampa, Fla. , this week and the Democrats the following week in Charlotte, N. C. As with any major event happening in the past year, a lot of attention is given to how the online population will factor in.
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2011 busiest year for newspaper ownership changes since 2007
Project for Excellence in Journalism | The Wall Street Journal The last 18 months have been “a period of intense change in U. S. newspaper ownership,” reports PEJ in the summary for its report “Who Owns the News… Read more.
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Poynter President Karen Dunlap: ‘These have been difficult times’ for institute
Tampa Tribune | Philanthropy. com Poynter Institute President Karen Dunlap acknowledged in an interview with the Tampa Tribune’s Richard Mullins that “these have been difficult times” for the institute, which recently created a foundation to seek additional sources of revenue. … Read more.
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Halifax Media buys more Florida, North Carolina newspapers
Freedom Communications announced today that it is selling its North Carolina and Florida newspapers to Halifax Media. Halifax bought 16 newspapers from The New York Times Co. earlier this year, including three in North Carolina and five in Florida. … Read more.
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