Newhouse’s New Orleans newspaper sold

The New Orleans Advocate, based in Baton Rouge, bought the New Orleans Times-Picayune from Advance Local Media, which is owned by the Newhouse family.

The Advocate won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for exposés of a jury system, discriminatory to African American defendants, that allowed felony convictions even on a split 10-2 vote. Legislation repealing the practice was passed late last year.

The Times-Picayune won a Pulitzer in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina under extremely difficult circumstances.

The Picayune began in 1836, then merged with the Times-Democrat in 1914 to become the Times-Picayune.

The paper got its name from its original cost, a picayune, a Spanish coin equivalent to 6.25 cents.

Authors William Faulkner and O. Henry once worked for the Picayune.

Click on https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/upstart-new-orleans-advocate-has-bought-the-rival-times-picayune/ to read the Poynter web site article.

For an article on the heartless, cruel way the layoff of everyone was delivered, go to

https://nypost.com/2019/05/07/newhouse-co-sends-bumbling-exec-to-lay-off-entire-times-picayune-staff/?fbclid=IwAR1E22yBhRbrews8VDPLkmTN5XWQQ2Sw0d90Nj6OloaqN0_nYXY2Hp-4VRA