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The New Orleans Item newsroom, circa 1900. Established as The Picayune in 1837 by Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall, the paper's initial price was one picayune, a Spanish coin equivalent to 6¼¢ (half a bit, or one-sixteenth of a dollar). [6]
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 ...
Berteaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1945. He received an associate's degree from Delgado Community College and studied photography at Tulane University. [1] In 1965, Berteaux was drafted into the United States Army and served for two years in Vietnam. In the 1970s, he began working at The Times-Picayune as a staff photographer. [2]
Toni Morrison was born in New Orleans but spent the summers of his childhood in New Roads, Louisiana, his father's stomping grounds, with his cousins from the Morrison and Claiborne families. When he was 21, he attended law school in Buenos Aires, Argentina and became fully fluent in Spanish, then returned to Louisiana State University to ...
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
Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson (January 17, 1936 – June 26, 2024) was an American politician who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1994 to 2002 and on the New Orleans City Council from 1990 to 1994, 2002 to 2006, and 2007 to 2013. She had been Honorary consul of Lithuania in New Orleans from December 2014 to her death. [1]
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr. (March 27, 1926 – January 25, 2024) was an American attorney who served as the district attorney of Orleans Parish (New Orleans), Louisiana, from 1973 to 2003. His son, Harry Connick Jr. , is an American musician and actor.
In 2005, the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper wrote, "But besides the rich history of St. Augustine, the church's real draw is the weekly sermon and golden voice of LeDoux." [8] LeDoux was known colloquially as "the people's priest" in the New Orleans region. [1]