The Daily Advertiser was co-founded as the Weekly Advertiser in 1865 by a Confederate States Army veteran, William B. Bailey, who subsequently served from 1884 to 1892 as mayor of his native Lafayette.[2]
Louisiana journalist Robert Angers (1919–1988) worked at times for The Daily Advertiser, including his ultimate position as business editor from 1985 until his death.
In 1998, The Daily Advertiser bought the local alternative weekly, the Times of Acadiana.[3]
The circulation area is approximately 27 percent nonwhite; the nonwhite employees of the newspaper totaled approximately 17 percent in 2005.[4]
Controversiesedit
The Advertiser has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s.[5] Later, in 2014, it gave a prominent op-ed to William Donahue of the Catholic League defending the protection of accused priests by the Church,[6] a piece that has been criticized as containing substantial inaccuracies, by one of the lawyers who had defended the Church in the 1980s.[7]
Referencesedit
^Benton, Joshua (March 9, 2023). "The scale of local news destruction in Gannett's markets is astonishing". Nieman Lab. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
^ Louisiana Historical Association. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
^"Times of Acadiana Sold to Thomson Corp. | Industry News". Archive.altweeklies.com. from the original on May 10, 2021. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
^"The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)". Power Reporting.com. from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
^"A strong press is the Lafayette lesson". National Catholic Reporter. July 9, 2015. from the original on January 2, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
^"Bishop deserves praise for protecting priests' identities". The Advertiser. from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
^"Former Gauthe attorney slams Advertiser op-ed". from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
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