The Houma Courier
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gannett |
Publisher | Clarice Touhey |
Editor | Keith Magill |
Founded | 1878 |
Headquarters | 3030 Barrow Street Houma, Louisiana 70361 |
Website | HoumaToday.com |
The Houma Courier is a newspaper published daily in Houma, Louisiana, United States, covering Terrebonne Parish.[1][2][3] It was owned by Halifax Media Group until 2015, when In 2015, Halifax was acquired by GateHouse Media.[4][5] It is sometimes simply referred to as The Courier. The paper is published by Clarice Touhey, the paper's first female Publisher. The paper's Executive Editor is . The paper was founded in 1878 as Le Courrier de Houma by French-born . It first published in four-page, half-French half-English editions.
The Courier has a daily circulation of 19,700 and a Sunday circulation of 22,100. Its online edition, Houma Today, was launched in May 1999.
The Courier won the 's Newspaper of the Year award in various categories in 2017.[2][6]
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References[]
- ^ "About the Courier". Houma Courier. December 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ a b "LPA Job Bank". . January 26, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
- ^ "NYTRNG Newspapers". The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 2007-11-02. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ New Media Announces Agreement to Acquire Halifax Media Group for $280.0 Million Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Halifax Media purchases 16 newspapers Archived 2012-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Better Newspaper, Free Circulation and Special Interest Editorial Competition, Student Newspaper Competition, and Individual Competition Results" (PDF). . April 14, 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
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