- The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Infobox Newspaper
name = The Advocate
caption = TheApril 4 ,2007 front page of
"The Advocate"
type = Morning dailynewspaper
format =Broadsheet
foundation = 1842 (as "The Democratic Advocate")
owners = Capital City Press
headquarters = 7290 Bluebonnet BlvdBaton Rouge, Louisiana 70810
USA
publisher = David Manship
editor = Milford Fryer
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website = [http://2theadvocate.com/ 2theadvocate.com]"The Advocate" is the primary newspaper of
Baton Rouge ,Louisiana .The paper consists of a Monday-Friday "Advocate", as well as the
weekend edition s "Saturday" and the "Sunday Advocate". As of 2004, it had a daily circulation of nearly 100,000 and a "Sunday Advocate" circulation of nearly 125,000.It presents itself as the "Independent Voice of South Louisiana." Today, it maintains this
tradition , although this does not preclude it from taking positions and offeringpolitical endorsement s.The oldest ancestor of the modern paper was the "Democratic Advocate", an anti-Whig, pro-Democrat
periodical established in 1842. The paper went through several transformations, but was ultimately acquired as "The State-Times", a paper with emphasis on local news, in 1909 byCharles Manship 's newly-foundedCapital City Press . In 1925, Manship also began publishing the companionary "Advocate" editions to focus on national news. TheManship family has since become an influential force inBaton Rouge , as they continue to maintain family ownership of Capital City Press and other media outlets."The State-Times", an afternoon publication, ceased in October 1991. "The Advocate" hence remains the sole descendant of the original 1842 paper.
The paper maintains
bureau s throughoutsouth Louisiana as well as inWashington, D.C. David William Thomas , aLouisiana State University journalism professor, published a small Baton Rouge newspaper in the early 1920s, which was acquired by "The Advocate". He then published papers in Hammond, and Minden, where he was electedmayor in 1936.From 1949 to her death in 1970,
Margaret Dixon was "The Advocate"'s first womanmanaging editor . Veteran journalistKenneth L. Dixon (no relation to Margaret) also worked there.A popular "Advocate" columnist is
Ed Cullen , whose "Attic Salt" appears on Sundays. He is also aNational Public Radio essayist and the author of "Letter in a Woodpile", a collection of some of his his "Morning Advocate" and NPR selections.In 2007, the newspaper lost two of its key staff with the deaths of Capitol Bureau Chief
John LaPlante and environmental writerMichael P. Dunne . LaPlante died inTexas in adrowning accident, and Dunne succumbed tocancer .External links
* [http://www.2theadvocate.com The Advocate website]
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