The
St. Petersburg Times is one of two major
newspapers serving the Tampa Bay Area
, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the
Times tops in both circulation and readership.
Based in
St. Petersburg,
Florida
, the Times has won eight Pulitzers since 1964, and in 2009, won two in
a single year for the first time in the paper's history.
It is
published by the Times
Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute
for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school directly adjacent to the
University of
South Florida
campus in St. Petersburg
.
The
Times also publishes the
tbt*, a free daily that is geared toward active
20-somethings in the Tampa Bay area. Its sister publication,
Florida Trend
Magazine, reaches another 200,000 readers monthly. In
2008, the
Times began publication of a quarterly upscale
magazine,
Bay Magazine, which is distributed only to
subscribers in upscale neighborhoods of the Tampa Bay area in their
Sunday Editions of the
St. Petersburg Times.
History
The
Times traces its origins to a newspaper started in
Dunedin,
Florida
, in 1884. On
November 7,
1986, its sister
publication, the
St. Petersburg Evening Independent,
ceased printing its afternoon edition and merged with the
Times.
A study by
Media Matters for
America showed that the
St. Petersburg Times was one
of only four newspapers in Florida that featured more progressive
opinions than conservative, with 43 percent of columnists
considered progressive and 29 percent considered
conservative.
PolitiFact.com
The newspaper operates PolitiFact.com, a project in which its
reporters and editors "fact-check statements by members of
Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups...." Their
evaluations are posted on the
PolitiFact website. The site also includes an
"Obameter", tracking
President Barack Obama's performance with regard to his
campaign promises.
PolitiFact.com was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National
Reporting in 2009 for "its fact-checking initiative during the 2008
presidential campaign that used probing reporters and the power of
the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims,
separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters."
Awards
Notes
- http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2009-National-Reporting
References
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