Times Publishing Company is a newspaper and magazine publisher. Itsflagship publication is theTampa Bay Times (formerly theSt. Petersburg Times), a dailynewspaper serving theTampa Bay area. It also publishes the business magazineFlorida Trend and the daily newspapertbt*.
Times Publishing Company is based inSt. Petersburg, Florida, and is owned by thePoynter Institute, a nonprofitjournalism school in St. Petersburg. The current chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Company isPaul Tash, who also serves as editor of theTampa Bay Times.
On January 1, 2012, theSt. Petersburg Times was renamed theTampa Bay Times, withtbt* (which was an acronym for "Tampa Bay Times") only referred to by that name.[1]
The Times Publishing Company owns several other publications, most of which are co-branded with theTampa Bay Times.[2]
tampabay.com is the online presence of theTimes. Articles are free to view. Subscribers to the printed or electronic editions of theTimes have access to a digital edition of theTimes that resembles the layout of the printed paper.[3]
Bay is an upscale magazine distributed to subscribers in select neighborhoods of the Tampa Bay area in their Sunday Editions of theTampa Bay Times and published six times a year. It began publication in 2008.
Florida Trend is a business-oriented news publication. It describes itself as "the respected source of insight for Florida's leaders — business executives, top government officials, and civic trend-setters". Its monthly print readership is 150,000.[4]
Tampa Bay Newspapers are weekly papers that serve local communities in central Pinellas County. They include theBeach Beacon,Belleair Bee,Clearwater Beacon,Dunedin Beacon,Largo Leader,Seminole Beacon, andPinellas Park Beacon, as well asTBN Weekly Online and a digital edition. Tampa Bay Newspapers' general office is located inSeminole.[5] Their combined circulation is 143,000.[6]
tbt* is a free weekday tabloid that is marketed to "mainly 25- to 39-year-olds" in the Tampa Bay area. A large proportion of its content is about social events. Its daily circulation is approximately 80,000.[7]
tb-two* is a weekly tabloid written by high school students in the Tampa Bay area in collaboration with the editors oftbt* and theTimes. It began publication in 2009. It is released every Thursday with a circulation of around 60,000 weekly.[8]
Senior Living Guide is a directory of housing, home care, and medical care services for seniors. It reaches 500,000 readers.[9]
Times Events are exhibitions around the Tampa Bay area presented by theTimes. They include home shows and job fairs.[10]
PolitiFact is an online journalistic undertaking that ferrets out the truth in American politics. It won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 2009.
TheTimes owned and published an evening newspaper, theEvening Independent, from 1962 until its closure in 1986.[11] Issues of theEvening Independent are available for viewing onGoogle 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:
