If you happened to read my post two weeks ago about collaborative accountability, then you may remember that I wrote: “Here at home, The Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) continue in their protracted battle to hold onto turf in the almost anachronistic two-newspaper town.â€
Last Tuesday that fight ended when the Tampa Bay Times purchased The Tampa Tribune for an undisclosed sum, marking the end of a 121-year run for the acquired newspaper. The two papers had been locked in competition since 1987, when what was then known as the St. Petersburg Times expanded across the Bay to court readers in the larger Tampa metro area. [Read more…] about Journalism Notes: Loss, lessons as newspaper folds