News and Notes
A couple of quick bits of interest to the region.
St. Petersburg Times
Design Director Chris Kozlowski reports:
[tbt* celebrated its first birthday on March 6] and circulation figures are beating all expectations. tbt* has grown distribution by more than 100,000 copies per week, culminating in 356,000 copies distributed Feb. 12-16. As you know, growing that rapidly and maintaining a pick up rate between 85% and 90% is something fairly unheard of in today’s print world.
Orlando Sentinel
AME/Visuals Bonita Burton reports:
We’re jumping on the 48″ web bandwagon. We’ll be converting later this year, anamorphically shrinking pages in the short-term with a larger redesign
planned for 2008.


August 3rd, 2007 at 1:28 am
[...] St. Petersburg Times *tbt print youth tab continues growing Speaking of Red Eye, St. Pete’s Red Eye clone is growing nicely. “The daily publication [celebrated its first birthday on March 6] and circulation figures are beating all expectations. tbt* has grown distribution by more than 100,000 copies per week, culminating in 356,000 copies distributed Feb. 12-16.” [...]