Our Neighborhood News Bureau opened in March of 2006 and is located in its own offices in Midtown St. Petersburg. It is a working newsroom, staffed by USF undergraduate and graduate students. It serves the USF campus and the surrounding community in three ways.

It provides training for journalism students at USF and other schools.

It functions as a community connection for collecting and disseminating information and news.

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It produces stories, features and announcements for the use by local and regional news media and community organizations, most recently the Weekly Challenger and the “Neighborhood Times” section of the St. Petersburg Times.