The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate
The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ancestral publications of other names date back to January 25, 1837. The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune by the New Orleans edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The front page of the September 2, 2005 Times-Picayune
The New Orleans Item newsroom, circa 1900
Allen Toussaint playing at one of the ultimately unsuccessful rallies in 2012 to "Save the Picayune" as a daily newspaper
Headquarters
The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper. Based in Baton Rouge, it serves the southern portion of the state. Separate editions for New Orleans, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, and for Acadiana, The Acadiana Advocate, are published. It also publishes gambit, about New Orleans food, culture, events, and news, and weekly entertainment magazines: Red in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, and Beaucoup in New Orleans.
The April 4, 2007, front page of The Advocate
Handing out free copies of the New Orleans edition in the New Orleans Central Business District, October 2012
Advocate main office in Baton Rouge, 2012
