CEO of Florida's largest daily newspaper looks ahead upon retirement

Venerable news organization, during an era of sweeping changes in how customers consume content, is about to get a new CEO.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 9:00 a.m. February 17, 2022
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Mark Wemple. Paul Tash, retiring as CEO of the Tampa Bay Times in July, started working for the newspaper in 1976.
Mark Wemple. Paul Tash, retiring as CEO of the Tampa Bay Times in July, started working for the newspaper in 1976.
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In 1976 Paul Tash, then a senior at Indiana University, experienced something that’s eluded every other college student nationwide ever since: being at a school with a men’s basketball team that delivers an undefeated national championship season.  

“It was magical,” Tash says. “That team was just such a treat for the whole university. When they won the championship by beating Michigan for the third time that season, in the final, there was exhilaration, of course. But I also felt a little sense of letdown. The quest was over. And I knew as well that my own time at Indiana was coming to an end.”

 

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