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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]
Among the 14 people killed in the New Orleans attack: a warehouse manager, an account executive, an aspiring nurse and two loving parents. ... told The Times-Picayune the teens were leaving Voodoo ...
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.
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 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
Lyle Saxon (September 4, 1891 – April 9, 1946) was a writer and journalist who reported for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana.He directed the Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration (WPA) guide to Louisiana.
NOLA.com has a complete list of road closures around New Orleans. The city would see its highest snow total since December 1963 if it tops 2.7 inches during Enzo; we're forecasting 3 to 5 inches.
At least 14 people were killed during a deadly attack on New Year's Day when a driver slammed into a crowd celebrating New Year's on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, in what is being investigated as ...