Writing for PBS’ MediaShift, freelancer Steven Davy called recently to ask a few questions about bloggers watching local government. The story gives a small look at a handful of social media publishers & bloggers who hope to make a difference in their communities, including our friend Chuck Welch from Lakeland Local. Here’s the [...]
The Times’ David DeCamp previously reported that Pinellas Hope (Tent City) was being given a couple hundred thou by the Pinellas Housing Authority. Near the bottom was this little tidbit: The housing authority is using surplus revenue from rent at its Palm Lake Village complex. Funneling money to help the homeless is part of a [...]
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 [...]
The St. Pete Times reports that many businesses have not yet paid their property taxes, leading to a record number and amount of delinquencies: A record number of property tax bills remain unpaid across the Tampa Bay area this year, one more casualty of tough economic times. In April, 114,000 properties had overdue bills totaling $332.1 million [...]
I got mail! At 11:23pm Tuesday, I got an email with an interesting subject line: “Tell Tampa Bay What You Think.” “I do that at Sticks of Fire,” I thought to myself. But I opened the email, anyway, and learned that I was going to be invited to be on an exclusive panel! Join the Tampa Bay Media Advisory [...]
They are fired up over at One Tribune Place these days. After rumors of the printed paper’s demise (exacerbated by people who deliver the St. Pete Times), Editor Janet Coats and President/Publisher Denise Palmer came out firing. Check the story in Sunday’s VIEWS section – This Newspaper Is Fighting Back. But instead of telling us what [...]
According to Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Gerald Ensley, next month you will no longer be able to read the Tampa Tribune in print: The Christian Science Monitor quit being a newspaper: It will publish online only. Reportedly, the Tampa Tribune will follow suit in January. He doesn’t say who reported that. And the Tribune issued a non-denial denial [...]
It turns out that Media General laid off another 80 people this week, including 18 from the Tampa Tribune newsroom. That newspapers are in dire straits is not news. Reporters are losing jobs across the nation as they trim the fat. But our local daily is completely cutting out all of the marble and cleaving the [...]
