The former headquarters of The Times-Picayune and its previously iconic clock tower, have been sold to a group of local real estate investors for $3.5 million. Continue reading →
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2016/09/10/former-times-picayune-hq-has-new-owners/
Former longtime Times-Picayune Managing Editor/News Dan Shea read about his imminent dismissal in the pages of The New York Times. His would be among the most high-profile ousters of wholesale Ti...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/08/02/dan-shea-promoted-to-advocate-publisher/
As New Orleans prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, most media watchers assume The Times-Picayune will produce its own retrospective on the sacrifice man...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/06/17/staff-cuts-katrina-anniv/
Newspaper circulars are the backbone of what’s left of the newspaper advertising business, so the news in Sunday’s Advocate is big: two of the largest grocery store chains in New Orleans, Rou...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/04/13/grocers-switch-to-advocate/
The day after the New Orleans edition of The Advocate made a play for Times-Picayune subscribers confused and/or fed-up about the fourth change in home-delivery schedules/edition of the newspaper...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/01/04/nmg-responds-to-advocates-marketing-ploy/
Times-Picayune subscribers who went to their driveways this morning unsure of whether an edition of the newspaper would be waiting for them (if you don’t know why, read THIS POST) were instead ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/01/03/advocate-marketing-on-end-tp-editions/
As predicted in Hell and High Water (page 190), NOLA Media Group today announced that The Times-Picayune will abandon its longtime Howard Avenue headquarters – including the iconic clock tower,...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2014/10/21/tp-to-leave-howard-ave-cut-100-more-jobs/
Less than 13 months after launching TPStreet, NOLA Media Group scrapped the three-day-a-week newsstand-only tabloid, instead restoring home-delivered publication of the broadsheet Times-Picayune ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2014/10/21/nmg-scraps-tpstreet/
The Advocate, the former Baton Rouge newspaper acquired by New Orleans billionaire John Georges, who has continued its fledgling expansion into New Orleans in a big way, is a supporting character...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/07/first-review-advocate/