The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate
The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ancestral publications of other names date back to January 25, 1837. The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune (which was the result of the 1914 union of The Picayune with the Times-Democrat) by the New Orleans edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Type
Georges Media Group
Judi Terzotis
Rene Sanchez
January 25, 1837
840 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
United States
77,565 Daily
81,398 Sunday[1]
The Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Four of The Times-Picayune's staff reporters also received Pulitzers for breaking-news reporting for their storm coverage.[2] The paper funded the Edgar A. Poe Award for journalistic excellence, which was presented annually by the White House Correspondents' Association from 1990 to 2019.[3][4]
Notable people[edit]
The writers William Faulkner and O. Henry worked for The Times-Picayune.[54] The Louisiana historian Sue Eakin was formerly a Times-Picayune columnist.[55] Bill Minor headed the paper's news bureau in Jackson, Mississippi from 1946 until it closed in 1976.[56] A weekly political column is penned by Robert "Bob" Mann, a Democrat who holds the Douglas Manship Chair of Journalism at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.[57]
The Times-Picayune was the longtime journalistic home of British-American satiric columnist James Gill, although he moved to The Advocate in 2013, along with many former Times-Picayune editorial staffers. For more than a decade, The Times-Picayune was also the newspaper home of Lolis Eric Elie, who wrote a thrice-weekly metro column before he went on to write for television, most notably HBO's Treme and AMC's Hell on Wheels.
Already widely known, the journalist and television commentator Iris Kelso joined The Times-Picayune in 1979. She had been particularly known for her coverage of the civil rights movement.[58]
