''The Daily Advertiser'' is a

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based in

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. ''The Daily Advertiser'' covers international, national, state, and local news in the six parishes of Lafayette,

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, St. Landry, St. Martin, and

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. The publication circulates 28,400 copies on weekdays. Its ranks 234 out of 1,410 newspapers in the

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. ''The Daily Advertiser'' was co-founded as the ''Weekly Advertiser'' in 1865 by a

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veteran,

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, who subsequently served from 1884 to 1892 as

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of his native Lafayette. Louisiana

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(1919–1988) worked at times for ''The Daily Advertiser'', including his ultimate position as business editor from 1985 until his death. In 1998, ''The Daily Advertiser'' bought the local

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weekly, the ''Times of Acadiana''. The circulation area is approximately 27 percent nonwhite; the nonwhite employees of the newspaper totaled approximately 17 percent in 2005.

Controversies

''The Advertiser'' has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s. Later, in 2014, it gave a prominent op-ed to William Donahue of the Catholic League defending the protection of accused priests by the Church, a piece that has been criticized as containing substantial inaccuracies, by one of the lawyers who had defended the Church in the 1980s.

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* Mass media in Lafayette, Louisiana Newspapers published in Louisiana Gannett publications {{Louisiana-newspaper-stub