Lousiana - The Times-Picayune

Lousiana - The Times-Picayune

According to the Historical New Orleans website, the Times-Picayune, began a “new era in Southern journalism”. It was sold for a picayune, “the Anglicized form of picaillon”. Picayune was the word used in New Orleans for their “smaller current coin, a piece of silver worth six and one-fourth cents”. Then, the name of the paper derived from its price. The today’s Times Picayune is a result of successive mergings since the Civil War, according to the website. According to The Advocate’s article from January 7th, 2015, the Times Picayune have a circulation of 97,249 on Wednesdays and Fridays and of 108,690 on Sundays.

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"The Press." Historical New Orleans. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015.
http://www.storyvilledistrictnola.com/newspapers.html


Griggs, Ted. "Circulation Increases to Become Louisiana’s Largest Newspaper." The Acadiana Advocate. The Acadiana Advocate, n.d. Web. 07 May 2015. http://theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/11401994-123/the-advocate-overtakes-the-times-picayune

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