''The Houma Courier'' is a
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 a ...
published daily in
Houma, Louisiana
Houma ( ) is the largest city in, and the parish seat of, Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. The city's government ...
, United States, covering
Terrebonne Parish
Terrebonne Parish ( ; French: ''Paroisse de Terrebonne'') is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2010 census, the population was 111,860, and 110,461 in 2019. In 2020, its population declined to 109,58 ...
.
It was owned by
Halifax Media Group until 2015, when In 2015, Halifax was acquired by
GateHouse Media.
Halifax Media purchases 16 newspapers
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 Keith Magill
Keith may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Keith (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters
* Keith (surname)
* Keith (singer), American singer James Keefer (born 1949)
* Baron Keith, a line of Scottish barons i ...
. The paper was founded in 1878 as ''Le Courrier de Houma'' by French-born Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet
Lafayette or La Fayette may refer to:
People
* Lafayette (name), a list of people with the surname Lafayette or La Fayette or the given name Lafayette
* House of La Fayette, a French noble family
** Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757â ...
. 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 Louisiana Press Association
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is border ...
's Newspaper of the Year award in various categories in 2017.
See also
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References
Houma, Louisiana
Newspapers published in Louisiana
Publications established in 1878
Daily newspapers published in the United States
Gannett publications
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