The Newhouses Strike Back

Posted: 9/24/2012  |  By: Ryan Chittum | Columbia Journalism Review

After Advance Publications announced it would gut the still-profitable New Orleans Times-Picayune’s newsroom and slash publication to three days a week, the Baton Rouge Advocate’s Manship family saw an opportunity.

The Advocate, which killed its New Orleans bureau a few years ago in cutbacks, said it would open a new bureau and print a New Orleans edition of the paper seven days a week.