Tampa Tribune

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 6 days ago
The Tampa Tribune launched a slimmed down print version Monday as part of a continuing effort to cut costs. (MEG) ...

Source: news.search.yahoo.com --- 12 days ago
HONG KONG - British chocolate maker Cadbury said Monday that tests have "cast doubt" on the safety of its Chinese-made products and ordered a recall, the latest foreign company affected by China's tainted milk scandal. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 10 days ago
The Tampa Tribune has confirmed several significant changes coming this week and next, from the layoff of a well-known columnist to a redesign coming Monday that will significantly reduce the size of the weekday newspaper. ...

Source: petfoodrecall.freehostia.com --- 1 day ago
Helping Main Street, and not only Wall Street, with the economy is now engrained in the political lexicon. Our Main streets are disparate, but the conversations are remarkably similar: shaken optimism, yet perseverance. ...

Source: weblogs.jomc.unc.edu --- 4 days ago
The Tampa Tribune has cut its standalone business section, according to a redesign that was launched Monday. Business news now appears in the first section of the paper, according to a note in Monday’s paper from executive editor Janet Coats. The rival St. Petersburg Times cut its standalone business section earlier this summer. Other metro dailies that have cut [...] ...

Source: blogs.orlandosentinel.com --- 36 days ago
Columnists have added plenty of jabs to the already heated USF-UCF rivalry. Now Tampa Tribune columnist Joe Henderson is joining the fray. Henderson plays off of UCF Coach George O'Leary's comment earlier this week arguing UCF and USF should continue... ...

Source: www.poynter.org --- 40 days ago
Poynter's Tampabay.com | Common Sense Journalism Eric Deggans hears the Tampa Tribune may soon begin publishing as a one-section paper weekdays, with very few stories jumping off the front page. Executive editor Janet Coats will only say: "We're looking at a number of options regarding resectioning and redesigning." || Doug Fisher: "It's more than a rumor. ...As described by eyes that have seen it: One section for everything, though business and sports have separate covers inside the main section." > Twenty-six in St. Pete Times newsroom take retirement deal ...

Source: www.poynter.org --- 10 days ago
Poynter's St. Petersburg Times They include a newsroom reorganization and a newspaper redesign, which debuts next week. Executive editor Janet Coats says: "I'll be spending a lot of time on the phone Monday," with readers angered by the changes. But, she adds, "from a reader perspective, it's been just as bad to keep changing the paper we're giving to people every six months. This is something we think we can sustain and live with a while." ...

Source: www.poynter.org --- 2 days ago
TampaBay.com | Nick Bergus The "new" Tribune debuted just Monday. Executive editor Janet Coats tells her staff : "The multiple section habit is deeply engrained. It's clear that trying to change that habit through a single news section is not something readers are going to accept. As [Trib Managing Editor] Duke [Maas ] said, we've interrupted the way our most loyal readers communicate with each other in the morning -- through handing the paper back and forth and sharing items with each other." ...

Source: blogs.tampabay.com --- 9 days ago
When I got former Tampa Tribune columnist Joe Brown on the telephone Wednesday to talk about his unexpected departure from the Tampa Tribune -- the company laid him off Monday after 14 years working there -- he was surprisingly open and frank about what had happened. "(Editorial page editor Rosemary Goudreau) apparently decided I was the least valuable player on her team," said Brown, 58, who was visiting friends and family at his alama mater, the University of Iowa. "I don't know what I'm going to do -- I'll probably take it easy for a month to figure it all out." Brown became the highest-profile casualty this year of the Tribune's staff cuts, let go after the newspaper had moved his column to the front of its Sunday Commentary section. This latest round of reductions was supposed to include up to 10 editors, but enough people left voluntarily when staff cuts started among the reporters and editors that just three other people were laid off Monday -- all midlevel editors or managers. Given that the Tribune will debut a smaller design Monday, it may not be surprising that the newspaper decided to pare down its editorial board. But columnists are often a personal connection with readers, and Brown was the newspaper's most visible columnist of color in Tampa, a city with a population nearly 50 percent black and Hispanic. Feeling a bit stung by the office politics of his situation -- he was hired by Goudreau's predecessor -- Brown w ...

Source: www.editorsweblog.org --- 9 days ago
Following a raft of job cuts at the long-standing regional newspaper, the Editor, Janet Coats , has announced that the Tampa Tribune will be undergoing a redesign and newsroom revamp and merge for Tribune, WFLA-Ch. 8 and TBO.com. For the newsroom, the focus will be web-first and a new plan to work as one newsroom for the newspaper and its stable mates. Editor Coats said. "It's kind of a return to a lot of newsroom structures we tried in the '90s, but didn't put a lot of energy into. It's a different way of looking at the data we gather." The new Tribune/WFLA/TBO.com newsroom has been separated into several subject areas: data, deadline, watchdog journalism, personal journalism and grassroots. When a story breaks, staffers from the deadline area work to gather material for the Web site first, while the other teams will develop plans for their own stories. Coats' wants the focus to be on delivering information to consumers in whatever form they may need it. Few details are available on the newspaper redesign, which is due to launch Monday. Essentially, however, the newspaper will be slimming down its weekday edition and expanding its Sunday newspaper, where Coats feels readers have more time to enjoy a newspaper. Source: Poynter.org and Tampabay.com ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 2 days ago
But officials at the Tampa Tribune say they are revamping the newspaper again, less than a week after combining most of the news content into one section on weekdays . ...