The Daily Advertiser was co-founded as theWeekly Advertiser in 1865 by aConfederate States Army veteran,William B. Bailey, who subsequently served from 1884 to 1892 asmayor of his native Lafayette.[2]
LouisianajournalistRobert Angers (1919–1988) worked at times forThe Daily Advertiser, including his ultimate position as business editor from 1985 until his death.
In 1998,The Daily Advertiser bought the localalternative weekly, theTimes of Acadiana.[3]
The circulation area is approximately 27 percent nonwhite; the nonwhite employees of the newspaper totaled approximately 17 percent in 2005.[4]
The Advertiser has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s.[5] 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,[6] a piece that has been criticized as containing substantial inaccuracies, by one of the lawyers who had defended the Church in the 1980s.[7]
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