June 18, 2004

By Chris Wadsworth
The News-Press
Published on 6/15/2004


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“I think local news is constantly learning the lesson that their niche … should be in local sports,” said Al Tompkins, a broadcasting instructor at The Poynter Institute, a St. Petersburg-based nonprofit organization that studies journalism issues. “There’s no network, there’s no online service that is going to take that away.”


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