Independently
Owned,
Customer-Focused,
Award-Winning
Welcome to the on-line employment
application site for the Times Publishing Company,
the largest print and electronic information
source in Florida. Each week, more than 1.2 million
unique audience in Tampa Bay choose our award-winning
journalism and information through the St. Petersburg
Times, tbt* Tampa Bay Times or tampabay.com.
In this age of Wall-Street influence
on media, the Times Publishing Company is unique.
We are locally owned and operated and have been
for more than 120 years. Yet, our goal, through
our journalism and business practices, is to
be a leader in our community and in our industry.
We recruit locally and nationally to find the
best and brightest to join our staff of nearly
1,500, and we offer competitive salaries and
full benefit packages. We challenge our employees
daily to learn and grow as individuals so we
can learn and grow as a company. Our commitment
to diversity in hiring helps us serve all of
our customers in all of our communities.
So whether your interests lie in machines or
numbers or words, we invite you to explore what
the Times has to offer.
Quick Facts
Staffers — Times Publishing
Company, including its affiliate companies, has
a staff of about 2,000 in all locations including
bureaus in Tallahassee, Miami and Washington, D.C.
Circulation — Average
daily circulation for 2005 was 317,840 daily
and 405,949 Sundays.
When it comes to the number
of people who read the Times, it’s approximately double our
circulation. We estimate more than 755,000 people
read the paper every day and on Sundays it’s
close to a million.
Newspapers measure their success
by penetration — the
number of newspapers sold in an area compared to
the number of households there. The Times has one
of the highest home-county penetrations in the
country at 50 percent daily and 62 percent Sunday.
Price — The newsstand price of the newspaper
is 35¢ daily and $1 on Sundays. In certain
parts of our circulation area our newspaper is
sold for 25¢ daily and 50¢ on Sundays,
for promotional reasons. These prices remain significantly
lower than other major metropolitan newspapers
nationwide.
Production — In 2006,
59,000 tons of newsprint were delivered to press.
This is an average of 160 tons per day. About
20,000 copies can be produced from one roll of
newsprint, which weighs about a ton.
Our 63 Goss Metro Press units are laid out in
3 press lines of 21 units each. Each press line
is located in a separate press room. A press can
print as many as 60,000 newspapers per hour.
Packaging handles approximately 100 preprinted
advertising sections per week.
Transportation includes about 138 vehicles, including
vans, trucks, utility vehicles, cars and one 1922
Model T Ford used in parades. Combined, these vehicles
drove a total of 2.1 million miles in 2006.
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