Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
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Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
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Paper became The Times-Picayune after merging in 1914 with its rival, the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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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.
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In October 2012, The Times-Picayune began publishing its broadsheet paper on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
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On June 12, 2012, Advance followed through with its layoff plans, as about 200 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.
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Circulation numbers for the printed Times-Picayune were the largest of any newspaper in Louisiana until the end of 2014.
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On May 2, 2019, Advance Publications announced that The Times-Picayune had been sold to Georges Media, owner of The Advocate.
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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 Times-Picayune editorial staffers.
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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.
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Times-Picayune's had been particularly known for her coverage of the civil rights movement.
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Times-Picayune endorsed George W Bush for President in 2000, but endorsed no Presidential candidate in 2004.
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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.
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Times-Picayune shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service coverage of Hurricane Katrina with The Sun Herald in similarly affected Biloxi, Mississippi.
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