The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana)
daily newspaper based in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
The Daily Advertiser is a USA Today Co. 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.
History
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.
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.
The circulation area is approximately 27 percent nonwhite; the nonwhite employees of the newspaper totaled approximately 17 percent in 2005.
Controversies
The Advertiser has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s.
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