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The ''Tampa Bay Times'', previously named the ''St. Petersburg Times'' through 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being ''The Tampa Tribune'', which the ''Times'' has long topped in both circulation and readership. The ''Times'' has won 10 Pulitzer Prizes 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 St. Petersburg campus. Many issues are available through Google News Archive. A daily electronic version is also available for the Amazon Kindle and iPad. ==History== The newspaper traces its origins to the ''West Hillsborough Times'', a weekly newspaper established in Dunedin, Florida on the Pinellas peninsula in 1884. At the time, neither St. Petersburg nor Pinellas County existed; the peninsula was part of Hillsborough County. The paper was published weekly in the back of a pharmacy and had a circulation of 480. It subsequently changed ownership six times in seventeen years. In December 1884 it was bought by A.C. Turner, who moved it to Clear Water Harbor (modern Clearwater, Florida). In 1892 it moved to St. Petersburg, and by 1898 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Times. The ''Times'' became bi-weekly in 1907, and began publication six days a week in 1912. Paul Poynter, a publisher originally from Indiana, bought the paper in September 1912 and converted to a seven-day paper, though it was rarely financially stable. Paul's son, Nelson Poynter, became editor in 1939 and took majority control of the paper in 1947, and set about improving the paper's finances and prestige. Nelson Poynter controlled the paper until his death in 1978, when he willed the majority of the stock to the non-profit Poynter Institute.〔 In November 1986, the ''Evening Independent'' was merged into the ''Times''. Poynter was succeeded by Eugene Patterson (1978 to 1988), Andrew Barnes (1988 to 2004) and Paul C. Tash (2004 to present).〔 On January 1, 2012, the ''St. Petersburg Times'' was renamed the ''Tampa Bay Times''; this stemmed from a 2006 decision of a lawsuit with Media General, the publishers of ''The Tampa Tribune'', which allowed that paper to keep its exclusive right to use the name of its defunct sister paper, ''The Tampa Times'', for five years after the decision. As the newly rechristened ''Tampa Bay Times'', the paper's weekday tabloid ''tbt *'', a free daily publication and which used "( * Tampa Bay Times)" as its subtitle, became just ''tbt'' when the name change took place.〔 The ''St. Pete Times'' name was repurposed as a new name for the Times' neighborhood news sections in southern Pinellas County (formerly ''Neighborhood Times''), serving communities from Largo southward. In 2003, the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' described the ''St. Petersburg Times'' as a "usually liberal" newspaper. The ''Times'' has also been a longtime opponent to the Church of Scientology, since the church's acquisition of the Fort Harrison Hotel in 1975. The ''Times'' has published special reports and series critical of the church and its current leader, David Miscavige. In 2010, the ''Times'' published an investigative report questioning the validity of the United States Navy Veterans Association, leading to significant reaction and official investigations into the group nationwide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tampa Bay Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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