Tampa Bay Times purchases main competitor, the Tampa Tribune

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Source: AP

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida's largest newspaper, The Tampa Bay Times, said Tuesday it has purchased its main competitor, the Tampa Tribune, ending a decades-long newspaper rivalry.

Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash said he intends to create one financially secure, locally owned daily newspaper in the Tampa Bay region. Tash did not disclose the purchase price.

"The continued competition between the newspapers was threatening to both," Tash said in a statement. "There are very few cities that are able to sustain more than one daily newspaper, and the Tampa Bay region is not among them."

The Times bought the paper from Revolution Capital Group, which bought the Tribune in 2012 for $9.5 million.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9d03a825539146f986fb14fd51517318/tampa-bay-times-purchases-main-competitor-tampa-tribune

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1. I lived/worked in Tampa for a year

When I was in Tampa for a year around 2004, I much preferred the Tampa Bay Times, then known as the St. Petersburg Times.
I'm a 'news junkie' and it had much better reporting (I thought) on local and national events.

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2. Not any more! The good reporters and columnists left, took early retirement, cuz of sinking

ship. Then they brought over a couple of Tribune favorites, and bled the paper out....

They mostly copy and paste AP, McClatchy, Reuters articles in the paper, and do very little investigative reporting. They also meddle and campaign, and they are not suppose to do that. But they do. They're dirty.