On Tuesday night, Creative Loafing announced the winners of their annual Best of The Bay awards for 2009, and Clark Brooks was there to tell us about the highly anticipated award for best local blog! This year’s winner for Tampa Bay’s Best Local Blog is WEDNESDAY-MUSIC!!! For those that don’t know ‘em, WEDNESDAY-MUSIC has been [...]
TBO.com has been publishing the work of local bloggers for four months without permission, and claims it was "unintentional."
Creative Loafing is under new ownership from New York. Atalaya Capital Management outbid Ben Eason for control of the network of alternative weeklies based in Tampa. With papers in Chicago, Sarasota, Atlanta, Washington DC, Tampa, and Charlotte, Atalaya plans to keep them all for now with a new management team that has plenty of media experience. [...]
Wayne Garcia has been giving us the inside scoop on local politics for years as Creative Loafing’s political editor. Alas, he is moving on to Gainesville. In his blog, he announces that he will be teaching investigative journalism at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. For the past four years, I have [...]
Modeled after the Amber Alert, the Silver Alert is an emergency system in which law enforcement can broadcast regional or statewide alerts for missing seniors and/or other adults with Alzheimer’s or other cognitive disorders. Times reporter Emily Nipps says that some folks wonder if the Silver Alert program is worth our time & effort, so she [...]
In St. Pete, selling from a pushcart after 9pm or before 7am violates a city ordinance. Sure sounds like a silly rule. But until the rule is changed, we can’t sell our t-shirts from a pushcart at night. Unless the St. Pete Times was in charge. A recent editorial says that if an ordinance is silly, [...]
Happy Birthday to the St. Pete Times! On July 25, 1884, editor J.M. “Doc” Baggett, printer M. Joel McMullen, and business manager Dr. J.L. Edgar published the first issue of the West Hillsborough Times. Based in Dunedin, it was a four-page weekly newspaper, printed in the back of Edgar’s pharmacy. Type was set by [...]
Of necessity, hospitals have grown crazily - ever try to find anything at Tampa General? Same thing with the IRS and with software programming. And your daily newspaper. It will take some money (and a big ball of guts) to knock it all down and start from scratch. But it might be worth it.
You might remember that Daniel Ruth was dismissed from the Tribune last November, only to hook up with the St. Pete Times before the year ended. Problem is that the talented writer used to submit four columns a week for the Tampa paper (plus a radio show), and now shows up only on Fridays for [...]
