St. Petersburg Times, Poynter Institute report executive pay
By Times Staff Writer
Published May 10, 2003
Salaries of several executives at the St. Petersburg Times and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies were reported in a document to be filed next week with the Internal Revenue Service.
Andrew Barnes, who is chairman and chief executive of the Times, was paid $540,029 in 2002, a 0.67 percent decrease from the previous year. Paul C. Tash, editor and president, was paid $441,029. Marty Petty, executive vice president, received $360,452. R. Michael Carroll, chief financial officer, received $191,560.
James Naughton, president of the Poynter Institute, was paid $269,726. Karen Brown Dunlap, who was dean of the faculty and who has been named to succeed Naughton later this year, received $143,422.
The newspaper and its affiliated publications make up Times Publishing Co., a private company that pays taxes on its profits. It is owned by the Poynter Institute, a school for professional and student journalists. The institute is non-profit and makes annual reports to the IRS.
All the executives whose salaries were reported are officers or trustees of the Poynter Institute.
