• Editor & Publisher, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:15 AM

The Tampa Tribune will fire about 70 employees as it retreats from some Florida counties, combines newspaper sections and gets rid of daily zoning. Instead, it will launch "hyper-local" Web sites and trim the width of its print product.

"Our newspaper is experiencing the challenges of changing reader needs and fundamental shifts in spending by our traditional advertisers," says president and publisher Denise Palmer. "We are reducing resources in areas that are in decline and investing in areas of growth, including local news and the Internet."

She adds that the paper will also reduce its page width by one-half inch, or 4%. And distribution in Citrus, Manatee and Hardee counties will be discontinued. Both it and rival St. Petersburg Times had targeted the areas, but couldn't compete with local dailies.

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