The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)

The Daily Advertiser is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Daily Advertiser covers international, national, state, and local news in the six parishes of Lafayette, Acadia, Iberia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion. The publication circulates 28,400 copies on weekdays. Its ranks 234 out of 1,410 newspapers in the United States.

The Daily Advertiser
Lafayette Daily Advertiser building
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)Gannett
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersLafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
Websitewww.theadvertiser.com

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.[1]

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.[2]

The circulation area is approximately 27 percent nonwhite; the nonwhite employees of the newspaper totaled approximately 17 percent in 2005.[3]

Controversies

The Advertiser has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s.[4] 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,[5] a piece that has been criticized as containing substantial inaccuracies by one of the lawyers who had defended the Church in the 1980s.[6]

References
  1. "Bailey, William B." Louisiana Historical Association. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  2. Times of Acadiana Sold to Thomson Corp.
  3. "The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)". Power Reporting.com. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
  4. "A strong press is the Lafayette lesson". National Catholic Reporter. July 9, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  5. "Bishop deserves praise for protecting priests' identities". The Advertiser. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  6. "Former Gauthe attorney slams Advertiser op-ed". Retrieved June 4, 2018.


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