DAILY NEWSPAPERS

Tampa Tribune (major daily)
PO 191
Tampa, FL 33601
FAX 813 259 7676
Currently, there's no Music Critic on staff there; previews and reviews are farmed out to various writers. Send EPKs and press releases to Friextra@tampatrib.com and mmount@tampatrib.com

St. Petersburg Times (major daily)
PO 1121
St. Petersburg, FL 33731
FAX 727 892 2327
Sean Daly, Music Critic, tbteditors@tbt.com
Anne Glover, Entertainment Editor, glover@sptimes.com, (727) 893-8562
Kelly Smith, Weekend magazine editor, kelly@sptimes.com, (727) 893-8324

Tampa Bay Times
(aka tbt, published by St. Pete Times, Mon - Fri tabloid, general entertainment/sports)
tbteditors@tbt.com

Entertainment editor: Kelly Smith | (727) 893-8324 | kelly@tampabay.com
Reporter: Dalia Colon | (727) 893-8717 | dcolon@tampabay.com
Reporter: Susan Thurston | (813) 226-3110 | sthurston@tampabay.com
Events diva/editor: Sharon Kennedy Wynne | (727) 893-8595 | wynne@tampabay.com

USF Oracle (daily college paper, 10 minutes from Skipper’s, 35,000 students)
CPR 472
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
TAMPA, FL 33620
FAX 813 974 4887
PHONE 813-974 2398

Sarasota Herald (daily newspaper, south of Tampa Bay)
PO 1719
SARASOTA, FL34230
FAX 941 957 5276
941 957 5175
gerry.galipault@heraldtribune.com

Bradenton Herald (daily newspaper, south of Tampa Bay)
PO 926
BRADENTON, FL 34206

Wade Tatangelo - features writer/columnist and all-around cool dude
wtatangelo@bradenton.com
(941) 745-7057

Jana Morreale
jmorreale@bradenton.com
(941) 745-7051
FAX 941 745 7097

Lakeland Ledger (daily newspaper, east of Tampa Bay)
PO 408
LAKELAND, FL 33802
FAX 863 802 7826
bill.dean@theledger.com
BILL DEAN/ BARB STUEWE (863) 802-7809

ALTERNATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Creative Loafing (alternative weekly)
1911 N. 13th Street
Suite-W200
Tampa FL 33605
813-739-4800 (main)
813-739-4801 (fax)
Leilani Polk, Music Critic
leilani.polk@creativeloafing.com

REAX Magazine (alternative monthly, now gone digital)
PO Box 5809
Tampa, FL 3367
www.reaxmusic.com
www.myspace.com/reax
ph. 813.766.1495
fx. 813.247.6975

OTHER PRESS

Julie Garisto (super-scene supporter, very good people)
jgaristo@tampabay.com
Does a great local music blog at
http://tampastica.wordpress.com/
Also writes for Creative Loafing

RADIO

WMNF 88.5FM Community Radio
1210 E. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33603-4417
http://www.wmnf.org
Air Studio: 813-239-9663
Office: 813-238-8001
Fax: 813-238-1802
Super-cool non-commercial, listener-supported radio station. Go to their website, serach the schedule for a program that's genre-appropriate for your act and service the DJ(s) directly as they program their own shows (shocking, isn't it?)

Hillsborough Community College (small college radio station)
2112 N 15th St. Tampa, FL 33605
DENNIS WELCH—Program Manager
813 253 7592
ldmwelch@exscite.com

OTHER

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