Tash, Paul C.

Paul C. Tash is the chairman and CEO of the Times Publishing Company, St. Petersburg, Fla.

A native of South Bend, Indiana, Tash graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1976. He received a Marshall Scholarship and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of laws degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland in 1978.

He started with the Times that fall as a local news reporter. He also has been a Tallahassee reporter, the city editor, metropolitan editor, Washington bureau chief and executive editor for the Times. From 1990-91, Tash was the editor and publisher of Florida Trend, a statewide business magazine owned by the Times Publishing Company.

Tash is chairman of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a school for journalists, which owns Times Publishing. He also serves on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Associated Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Newspaper Association of America. Tash is a director of Western Communications, an independent newspaper company based in Bend, Oregon, and he is a member of the Florida Council of 100, a group of business leaders.

Tash is married to the former Karyn Krayer of St. Petersburg, a high school teacher, and they have two daughters in college.

The St. Petersburg Times is an independent newspaper and Florida's largest daily, with an average circulation of 330,000 and 410,000 on Sunday. The Times has won six Pulitzer Prizes, and it is consistently ranked among the country's best newspapers.

Tash joined The Pulitzer Prize Board in 2006.