They're dropping like flies over at the Tampa Bay Times — reporters, that is.
On Monday, Emily Nipps, a 10-year-plus veteran at the paper, became the latest staffer to announce she is leaving the industry to go into public relations — in her case, working for Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg.
In recent months other longtime Times journalists have also left the paper to go into the world of flackery — such as Janet Zink leaving to work at Tampa International Airport and Tom Scherberger going to USF-St. Pete.
Nipps began her tenure in sports at the Times before moving to news in 2005. Previously, she wrote for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Tampa Tribune.
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.