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''The Houma Courier'' is a 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
''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.
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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 109,5 ...
. It was owned by Halifax Media Group
Halifax Media Group was an American newspaper company owning more than 30 newspapers in five Southeastern U.S. States. It was founded on March 31, 2010 when a group of investors purchased ''The Daytona Beach News-Journal'' from the Davidson fami ...
until 2015, when In 2015, Halifax was acquired by GateHouse Media.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
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. The paper was founded in 1878 as ''Le Courrier de Houma'' by French-born Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet
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. 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's Newspaper of the Year award in various categories in 2017.
See also
*List of French-language newspapers published in the United States
During the 19th and 20th centuries, hundreds of French-language newspapers, many short-lived, were published in the United States by Franco-Americans, immigrants from Canada, France, and other French-speaking countries. In New England alone, more ...
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