12 Facts About The Times-Picayune

The Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

Paper became The Times-Picayune after merging in 1914 with its rival, the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

On May 24,2012, the paper's owner, Advance Publications, announced that the print edition of the Times-Picayune would be published three days a week beginning at the end of September.

In October 2012, The Times-Picayune began publishing its broadsheet paper on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

On June 12,2012, Advance followed through with its layoff plans, as about 200 The Times-Picayune employees were notified that they would lose their jobs.

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However, in reporting its print circulation figures to the Alliance for Audited Media, The Times-Picayune still provides data only for the home-delivery days of Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Circulation numbers for the printed The Times-Picayune were the largest of any newspaper in Louisiana until the end of 2014.

On May 2,2019, Advance Publications announced that The Times-Picayune had been sold to Georges Media, owner of The Advocate.

The Times-Picayune was the longtime journalistic home of British-American satiric columnist James Gill, although he moved to The Advocate in 2013, along with many former The Times-Picayune editorial staffers.

For more than a decade, The Times-Picayune was the newspaper home of Lolis Eric Elie who wrote a thrice weekly metro column, before he went on to write for television, most notably HBO's Treme and AMC's Hell on Wheels.

The Times-Picayune was awarded a 1997 Pulitzer Prize for a series analyzing the threatened global fish supply; that same year, staff cartoonist Walt Handelsman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

The Times-Picayune shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service coverage of Hurricane Katrina with The Sun Herald in similarly affected Biloxi, Mississippi.