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The paper became The Times-Picayune after merging in 1914 with its rival, the New Orleans Times-Democrat. [ 8 ] From 1947 to 1958, the paper operated a radio station, WTPS, launching first on FM at 94.7 MHz on January 3, 1947, and adding an AM station at 1450 kHz a year later.
Later in 2013 the New Orleans edition became The New Orleans Advocate. In 2019, the papers merged to form The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate. The New Orleans Tribune and The Louisiana Weekly serve the city with an African American focus. The Clarion Herald is the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.
The State-Times, an afternoon publication, ceased in October 1991. The Advocate remains the sole descendant of the original 1842 paper. The Manship family's Capital City Press company continued to own and operate The Advocate until 2013. Handing out free copies of the New Orleans edition in the New Orleans Central Business District, October 2012
Among the 14 people killed in the New Orleans attack: a warehouse manager, an account executive, an aspiring nurse and two loving parents.
Chris Rose is a New York Times Best-Selling New Orleans, Louisiana, writer and journalist. [1] For years best known for light-hearted writing in the Times-Picayune, he gained greater attention for his chronicles of the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans since 2005.
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During his tenure, The Times-Picayune evolved from being regarded as one of the nation's worst big-city newspapers to winning acclaim as one of its best. In a 1997 interview with the American Journalism Review, Amoss said, "There is a false hypothesis that the Times-Picayune was floundering until Jim Amoss took over. When I took over from ...
The acquisition brought daily news and daily paper deliveries back to New Orleans. The Times Picayune - New Orleans Advocate's website, Nola.com, reaches over 90 million unique worldwide readers every year. The Advocate was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for local reporting on the lack of unanimous vote for criminal convictions.