| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Founded | 1878 |
| Circulation | 5,062 Daily 7,783 Sunday[1] |
| Website | houmatoday |
The Houma Courier is anewspaper published daily inHouma, Louisiana, United States, coveringTerrebonne Parish.[2][3][4] It is sometimes simply referred to asThe Courier. The paper was founded in 1878 asLe Courrier de Houma by French-bornLafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet. It first published in four-page, half-French half-English editions.
It was owned byHalifax Media Group until 2015, when In 2015, Halifax was acquired byGateHouse Media.[5][6] GateHouse was later subsumed intoGannett.
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 theLouisiana Press Association's Newspaper of the Year award in various categories in 2017.[3][7]
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