St. Petersburg Times

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St. Petersburg Times
The July 27, 2005 front page of the St. Petersburg Times. The paper's layout has since changed in late-2006.
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Times Publishing Company
Publisher	Marty Petty
Editor	Paul Tash
Founded	1884
Price	Pinellas County: Daily: $0.35 Sunday: $1.00 Elsewhere in Bay Area: Daily: $0.25 Sunday: $0.50 Leon County: Daily: $0.50 Sunday: $1.25
Headquarters	490 First Avenue South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 United States
Circulation	322,771 Daily 430,893 Sunday
ISSN	1563-6291

Website: tampabay.com

The St. Petersburg Times is a daily newspaper based in St. Petersburg, Florida, that serves the larger Tampa Bay area. The Times sells 323,031 papers per day Monday through Saturday, making it the largest paper in Florida. It is also one of the nation's most respected newspapers, as it has won six Pulitzers since 1964. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism school in St. Petersburg directly adjacent to the University of South Florida campus in St. Petersburg.

On Sunday it sells 422,410 papers, and the Times estimates about 755,000 people read the daily edition, while on Sundays it is approximately one million. The Times also publishes the tbt*, a free daily which is geared toward active 20-somethings in the Tampa Bay area. Its sister publication, Florida Trend Magazine, reaches another 200,000 readers monthly.

The Times traces its origins to a newspaper started in Dunedin, Florida, in 1884.

It owns naming rights for the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa.

In October 2006, a full partnership was formed between the Times and Bay News 9. The partnership's foundations actually began in 2005, with Bay News 9's political-themed program Political Connections.

In October 2006, the newspaper was completely redesigned, as roughly a dozen new sections were added, the size of the paper was reduced by one and a half (1 1/2) inches, the coloring of the paper was changed to be "more vibrant", and the general news area (Formerly known as "The Times Today") was moved to the left side of the paper and renamed "In the Know."

The Times had spread throughout the Suncoast over the years, adding bureaus in Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus counties. In April 2007, however, the newspaper closed its outlying Citrus County bureau.

The newspaper's slogan is "In the know, in the Times".

The newspaper also ranks as one of the largest customers for CSX Transportation in the Bay Area, receiving many boxcars of paper on a daily basis using railroad tracks that run right next to the printing center, located in St. Petersburg at the corner of 13th Avenue North and 34th Street North (US 19).^{[citation needed]}

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2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
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Times History. St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved on 15 December 2006.