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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.