Charles L. Dufour
Charles L. "Pie" Dufour (1903–1996) was an American newspaper journalist, historian, humorist, and book author from New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana who served as a columnist for the ''New Orleans States-Item'' newspaper.''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' obituary for Pie Dufour, May 28, 1996. He wrote approximately 9700 installments of his column "Pie Dufour's A La Mode" for the ''States-Item'' and for the Sunday edition of the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' during his newspaper tenure, from 1949 until his retirement in 1978. He authored 20 books and approximately 50 articles for scholarly literature. Dufour's column covered diverse topics including History of Louisiana, Louisiana history, New Orleans Mardi Gras, law, local sports, classical music, Louisiana Creole cuisine, New Orleans cuisine, and European travel.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ...
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