Joe Henderson: Challenges continue for Florida newspapers
Five years after the Tampa Tribune was shut down, newspapers throughout the state face financial peril.
Five years ago, at around 3 p.m. on May 3, the costliest, bloodiest newspaper war in Florida history ended. That’s when the Tampa Bay Times bought and
Times CEO
Paul Tash delivered the news in front of a packed auditorium of suddenly former Trib employees. The first thing Tash did was tell everyone to put their phones down because he didn’t want a video record of his words.
I thought that was strange for a news person, especially one from a paper as vocal as the Times about transparency. Tash also didn’t allow the Tribune the common courtesy of printing a farewell edition, a completely classless move.