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5 things I think about today’s St. Petersburg Times — and, yes, I did ‘out’ the new food critic

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Just another bad day for the St. Petersburg Times, which failed to convince a federal judge that the city of St. Petersburg’s new ban on street solicitation should be blocked while the matter winds its way through the courts.  Judge Lazzara said there was no question in his mind that the ordinance was content-neutral, narrowly tailored and that a significant government interest was at stake. The Times lost in court.  And it is also losing — badly, I might add —…

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St. Petersburg Times looking for a ‘cheap’ name for its new online feature

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At a meeting with the Executive Editor of the Tampa Tribune, during a discussion of traditional media integrating new technologies into their business model, I remarked, casually at the time, but now I think it oh-so-seriously, that the people who understand online news media the least are newspapers. Today’s case in point, The St. Petersburg Times is asking readers for names for a new Facebook page linked to its (how boring) “Things To Do” section and two of the three…

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St. Petersburg Times looking for a ‘cheap’ name for its new online feature

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At a meeting with the Executive Editor of the Tampa Tribune, during a discussion of traditional media integrating new technologies into their business model, I remarked, casually at the time, but now I think it oh-so-seriously, that the people who understand online news media the least are newspapers. Today’s case in point, The St. Petersburg Times is asking readers for names for a new Facebook page linked to its (how boring) “Things To Do” section and two of the three…

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Tampa Tribune: Jim Leavitt’s appointment to St. Petersburg Sports Alliance not a hit with everyone

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Scott Carter, the beat reporter for the USF Bulls links up to my post about how completely inappropriate it is to have ex USF football coach Jim Leavitt on St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster’s Sports Alliance, which is touted as “some of Tampa Bay’s greatest sports heroes.”  Carter writes: Maybe St. Petersburg mayor Bill Foster isn’t a big football fan. Maybe he was on a European vacation in January and missed a lot of the drama. Whatever the case, St.…

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Daily circulation at Tampa Tribune plummets 18%, St. Petersburg Times also sees weekday sales drop

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Circulation of the Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times continued to decrease, according to figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.  The Tampa Tribune saw an 8 percent decline on Sundays down 24,666 to 259,917, while weekday circulation plummeted 35,464, or 18 percent to 159,813, while circulation of the St. Petersburg Times dipped 1.4 percent (4,205) to 278,888.  But, as Eric Deggans writes the Times was the only newspaper in Top 25 to show a circulation gain on Sundays.

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Rays ‘not prepared’ to answer tough question

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From Noah Pransky’s Shadow of the Stadium blog: The ABC Coalition visited Pinellas County’s Tourist Development Council today, and St. Pete City Council Chair Leslie Curran had a chance to speak directly to Rays Senior VP Michael Kalt. “Do you want to stay in St. Pete?” she asked, according to the Tampa Tribune. Kalt’s response was: “That’s not a question we’re prepared to answer right now…we want to stay in the Tampa Bay area and find the best place to…

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Rays ‘not prepared’ to answer tough question

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From Noah Pransky’s Shadow of the Stadium blog: The ABC Coalition visited Pinellas County’s Tourist Development Council today, and St. Pete City Council Chair Leslie Curran had a chance to speak directly to Rays Senior VP Michael Kalt. “Do you want to stay in St. Pete?” she asked, according to the Tampa Tribune. Kalt’s response was: “That’s not a question we’re prepared to answer right now…we want to stay in the Tampa Bay area and find the best place to…

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