St. Petersburg Times

Pros: Excellent design, photographs, local coverage.
Cons: The paper serves two basic readers, tourists and the elderly.

Size:
The St. Petersburg Times has an average daily paid circulation of 343,603. It has a home penetration that is 71.6%, the best in the nation! This makes it Florida’s largest newspaper. In other words, this makes it Florida’s best...

Pros: This is one of the best local-news papers in the United States.
Cons: Features cater to the elderly, making for a dry read for us 20-somethings.

The Times does more zoning than any other paper I've ever seen. It has something like six zoned editions just for the county it covers, Pinellas. It also has daily zoned editions in Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties, the latter of which...

Pros: Good writing, good resources, easy to read
Cons: Very liberal and a little high on themselves

If you live in Pinellas County the Times is really your only choice for a newspaper.

There is the competition across the way, the Tampa Tribune, but it concentrates on as it's name suggests, Tampa.

The Times has the neighborhood and...

Pros: It's available on the web: sptimes.com
Cons: None

I love the city of St Pete, we vacation there yearly. So, when I'm there I read the paper copy of the times. When I'm not there I read the St Pete Times online, through the internet.It's available online at WWW.SPTIMES.COM The thing I enjoy most...

Pros: good local coverage, good REGIONAL local coverage, good world news reporting, great editorial content, outstanding sports reporting and content
Cons: "Snuffy Smith" on the Comics section

The St. Petersburg Times namesake is a sleepy little town in southern Pinellas County. The newspaper, however, is the factual reporting over the entire Tampa Bay Metro Region. Pinellas County is given as much coverage as Hillsborough, Polk County gets...

Pros: Cheap, Good Coverage
Cons: Tampa Tribune Has A Little More

The St. Petersburg Times is one of the two newspapers serving the Tampa Bay Area, and it is great. With a low cost of only 25 Cents per day, it's probably the most popular paper. Yet, the Tampa Tribune, it's competitor offers more, with an eleborate...