Paul C. Tash (born circa 1954) is the chairman and CEO of the ''
Tampa Bay Times
The ''Tampa Bay Times'', called the ''St. Petersburg Times'' until 2011, is an American newspaper published in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute ...
'' and
Times Publishing Company, which used to publish ''
Congressional Quarterly''—a publication that was sold to the Economist Group in 2009. He began working for the Times as a local news reporter. From 1990 to 1991, he was the editor and publisher of
Florida Trend, which was owned by Times Publishing.
Family
He is married to Karyn Tash, a high school teacher of the International Baccalaureate at St. Petersburg High School. Together they have two daughters. One is a physician at
Duke University Medical Center and the other is a Local lawyer in Tampa.
Education
In 1976, he graduated summa cum laude from
Indiana University. Two years later, he attended the
University of Edinburgh
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in
Scotland
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on a
Marshall Scholarship, graduating with a bachelor of laws degree. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Edinburgh.
Awards
Tash received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from
Indiana University in 2012. He was also selected to be inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.
Organizations
In 2006 he was made a member of the
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...
board,
Paul Tash biography
pulitzer.org, January 5, 2007. Retrieved on May 22, 2008. the Associated Press, and the Committee to Protect Journalists. He is also a member of the Florida Council of 100, a group of business leaders.
References
Living people
American male journalists
Indiana University alumni
Year of birth uncertain
Marshall Scholars
20th-century American journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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