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61-687: The National Colored Base Ball League , the National Colored League , or the League of Colored Baseball Clubs was the subsequent attempt, after the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists , to have a league consisting of all-black teams. It predated Rube Foster 's Negro National League by over three decades. The league was organized by Walter S. Brown , a newspaperman with the Cleveland Gazette . Brown served as

122-491: A Loving cup to individuals who have contributed to improving life in the New Orleans area through civic, cultural, social, or religious activities. Representative awardees include: Eleanor McMain , Albert W. Dent , Edgar B. Stern Sr , Scott Cowen , Gary Solomon Sr., Millie Charles, Mark Surprenant, Leah Chase, Norman Francis, Tommy Cvitanovich, Edith Rosenwald Stern , and Bill Goldring. Soon after The Times-Picayune

183-759: A Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. This award marked the first Pulitzer given for exclusively online journalism. For its coverage of Hurricane Katrina , The Times-Picayune also received the 2005 George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting. Former Times-Picayune editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich won the Pulitzer for his cartoons in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , some of which were also featured in New Orleans Magazine . Since 1901, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate has annually awarded

244-518: A Sunday edition) until September 30, 1986. In addition to the flagship paper, specific community editions of the newspaper are also circulated and retain the Picayune name, such as the Gretna Picayune for nearby Gretna, Louisiana . The paper is owned by Georges Media, whose chair is John Georges , a New Orleans business owner. In the vernacular of its circulation area, the newspaper

305-462: A capital of nearly $ 100,000.” Clubs that wanted to join the league were required to submit a five dollar fee to cover the cost of advertising, postage, and telegraph cost. They were also required to pay $ 1.50 for a subscription to The Southern Leader , a black newspaper based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Southern Leader was to be “the official organ of the league”. The league convention

366-468: A fair record and desire to enter the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists to send name and address to The Manager of the Southern League of Coloered Base Ballists, Lock Box 298, Jacksonville, Florida.” T.T. Harden was the manager of the league, which had a board of twelve directors. An informational circular obtained by The News and Courier said that the board of directors represented “…

427-625: A new regional media company across Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, to be called Southeast Regional Media Group. Additional job losses were expected in Louisiana; those cuts came September 17, 2015, when NOLA Media Group fired 37 journalists, 28 of them full-time employees and nine part-timers. Hardest-hit were the Baton Rouge bureau, which had been expanded in the 2012 makeover, as well as The Times-Picayune' s high school prep sports staff and its music reporting staff. The merged company

488-511: A series analyzing the threatened global fish supply; that same year, staff cartoonist Walt Handelsman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning . The Times-Picayune shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service coverage of Hurricane Katrina with The Sun Herald in similarly affected Biloxi, Mississippi . In addition, staff reporters Doug MacCash, Manuel Torres, Trymaine Lee , and Mark Schleifstein were awarded

549-585: A single operation by June 2019 and that the NOLA.com brand would be maintained for the combined newspaper's digital operations. A filing required under the WARN Act stated that the entire staff of the Times-Picayune had been laid off, resulting in a loss of 161 jobs, including 65 journalists. The merged paper initially re-hired 10 of those journalists, and about 12 other employees. The paper, carrying

610-535: A small, sweltering interior office space—the photography department—outfitted as a "hurricane bunker," the newspaper staffers and staffers from the paper's affiliated website, NOLA.com, posted continual updates on the internet until the building was evacuated on August 30. With electrical outages leaving the presses out of commission after the storm, newspaper and web staffers produced a "newspaper" in electronic PDF format. On NOLA.com, meanwhile, tens of thousands of evacuated New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents began using

671-422: A story we'll be telling till the day we die. Being a part of the plot is both riveting and deeply unsettling. We don't yet know the end of this story ... It's the story of our lives, and we must both live and chronicle it. On May 24, 2012, the paper's owner, Advance Publications, announced that the print edition of the Times-Picayune would be published three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday) beginning at

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732-464: A toned-down palette and new typography. However, the concept – a continually updated "river" of combined news, sports, and entertainment content – remained the same. After the October 1, 2012, launch of NOLA Media Group, the publication workflow of the newspaper and website was reversed. All staff-produced content is published first to NOLA.com; content was harvested from the website for publication in

793-506: Is lined with custom panels by sculptor Enrique Alferez , showing symbols used in communication throughout history. Although NOLA Media Group said in 2014 that it hoped to donate the building to a nonprofit institution in the community, it ultimately sold the building on September 2, 2016, to a local investor group for $ 3.5 million. The newspaper of Sunday, January 17, 2016, was the last Times-Picayune to be printed in New Orleans. The street-sales-only newspaper of Monday, January 18, 2016,

854-496: Is often called the T-P . Hurricane Katrina became a significant part of The Times-Picayune' s history, not only during the storm and its immediate aftermath but for years afterward in repercussions and editorials. As Hurricane Katrina approached on Sunday, August 28, 2005, dozens of the newspaper's staffers who opted not to evacuate rode out the storm in their office building, sleeping in sleeping bags and on air mattresses. Holed up in

915-542: Is penned by Robert "Bob" Mann , a Democrat who holds the Douglas Manship Chair of Journalism at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . The Times-Picayune was the longtime journalistic home of British-American satiric columnist James Gill , although he moved to The Advocate in 2013, along with many former Times-Picayune editorial staffers. For more than a decade, The Times-Picayune

976-587: The T-P ) is an American newspaper published in New Orleans , Louisiana . Ancestral publications of other names date back to January 25, 1837. The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune (which was the result of the 1914 union of The Picayune with the Times-Democrat ) by the New Orleans edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana . The Times-Picayune

1037-562: The Alliance for Audited Media , The Times-Picayune still provides data only for the home-delivery days of Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. The paper returned to a full broadsheet format for all editions on September 6, 2014, and ceased using the "TP Street" name. On the same date, NOLA Media Group began publishing "bonus" editions of The Times-Picayune on Saturdays and Mondays to be home-delivered to all three-day subscribers at no additional cost. The bonus editions were delivered for 17 weeks,

1098-559: The T-P newsroom, it was operated independently, and it also hosted blogs and forums. In early 2001, the site was renamed NOLA.com. After a management change at NOLA.com in February 2009, content on the website more closely reflected that of The Times-Picayune . Articles written for the newspaper were posted to the website using the Movable Type content management system. In October 2018, the paper switched from Movable Type to Arc,

1159-479: The 32nd and 31st floors of the One Canal Place office tower at 365 Canal Street, New Orleans. Advance Central Services Louisiana employees remained at Howard Avenue. In April 2018, NOLA Media Group moved from the offices at One Canal Place to a newly renovated location at 201 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans. Its news staff, sales and sales support staff, marketing, and other administrative staff now work from

1220-689: The Eurekas and the Eclipse ball clubs of Memphis were “champion colored clubs.” There is no evidence though that the league lasted long enough to declare a champion. The following were the officials that ran the league. The following teams were listed as having members at the May 22 league convention with the exception of the Fultons. The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate (commonly called The Times-Picayune or

1281-748: The Fulton’s schedule on June 6 and the Times-Picayune published the New Orleans Unions on June 7. The first game of the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists was played on June 7, 1886 between the Champions and the Eclipse in Atlanta, Georgia. The Champions won the game 11–10. Pointer pitched and Wood caught for Memphis. One of the best documented games of the season was in New Orleans on June 16, 1886. The Unions of New Orleans played

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1342-596: The Gorhams failed to take in enough money to pay for the use of the Athletics ball park. By May 28, the league had folded. Southern League of Colored Base Ballists The first mention of the league was in March 1886 when the following ad ran in several major Southern newspapers: “A call has been issued for the captains of all colored base ball clubs of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee that have

1403-625: The Howard Avenue building of the remaining staff. The Metairie building also houses Advance Central Services Southeast, formed from the combined Advance Central Services units in Louisiana and Alabama. Production of another Advance newspaper, The Oregonian , was moved to the Metairie location in late 2016. On May 2, 2019, Advance Publications announced that The Times-Picayune had been sold to Georges Media, owner of The Advocate . The new owners stated that both papers would be folded into

1464-716: The Louisville Falls City, and barely arrived for the second on May 7. Despite all the turmoil, the Resolutes beat the Falls City 10–3. Unfortunately, the revenue from the sparsely attended game was not enough to cover the cost of the trip to their next game in Pittsburgh , as a result the Resolutes were stranded in Louisville. The Philadelphia Pythians withdrew from the league after their May 16 game with

1525-564: The Memphis Eclipse. Memphis won the game 3–1. The New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper reported that after watching the game, “…colored clubs will furnish good sport, and the teams can play ball… The Eclipse boys all field well and threw the ball like the best professionals.” Approximately 500 people attended the game. The winning pitcher for Memphis was William Renfroe. In August the Memphis Appeal newspaper reported that

1586-553: The Sunday paper, offered at the Sunday price. On October 21, 2014, the paper announced it would begin printing and packaging The Times-Picayune in Mobile, Alabama, sometime in late 2015 or early 2016, closing the plant on Howard Avenue in New Orleans and eliminating more than 100 jobs at Advance Central Services Louisiana. The Howard Avenue building, which housed all aspects of the newspaper operation, opened in 1968. The building's lobby

1647-572: The Warehouse District offices, offices in St. Tammany Parish at 500 River Highlands Blvd., Covington, and the existing East Jefferson Times-Picayune Bureau at 4013 N Interstate 10 Service Road W, Metairie. On April 30, 2013, the paper's publisher announced plans to print a tabloid version of The Times-Picayune , called Times-Picayune Street , on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, sold only through newsstands and retail locations. The move returned

1708-465: The alleged "attitude" of its spokesman Andrew Thomas toward people who were cash-strapped after the evacuation from Hurricane Gustav , which, in the meantime, had become part of the melange of problems associated with hurricanes and governmental agencies. A second editorial on the same day blasted the State of Louisiana's Road Home program and its contractor ICF . The post-Katrina experience affected

1769-785: The beginning of the season. The Cuban Giants declined Brown's invitation to join the league as they were unwilling to sacrifice more lucrative Sunday bookings in Brooklyn . On opening day, May 5, 1887, the Lord Baltimores beat the Pythians 15–12. The league quickly experienced financial problems. Due to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 , railways revoked the reduced "group rates" normally enjoyed by traveling baseball teams. Fares fluctuated wildly and could double or triple overnight, wreaking havoc on

1830-564: The budgets of baseball teams throughout the country (even those in the American Association and the National League ). A storm from the west, coupled with the rate hikes, led to disaster for the traveling Boston Resolutes on their way to Louisville . The storm caused the Resolutes to cancel several exhibition games they had planned along the way to help them pay for their trip. They missed their first scheduled game with

1891-494: The clubs to take advantage of every opportunity for exhibition games." "Player salaries were to range from $ 10 to $ 75 per month; each club was to hire a local umpire; visiting teams were guaranteed $ 50 plus half the gate receipts, and were to receive $ 25 from the home team in case of rainout." They adopted the Reach brand baseball, and in return the company would supply the league with two gold medals: one for highest batting average and

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1952-530: The content management system created by developers at the Washington Post. Led by Advance, the site underwent several redesigns over the years. On May 8, 2012, the site debuted its most dramatic redesign by Mule Design Studio of San Francisco. With bright yellow accents, the design echoed that of Advance's bellwether site in Michigan, mlive.com. Following complaints from the public, NOLA.com developed

2013-401: The duration of the 2014 football season. On January 3, 2015, NOLA Media Group returned the paper to its previous three-day home delivery, printing two-section papers for street sales only on the other four days. On Saturday, February 13, 2016, NOLA Media Group debuted a street-sales-only "Early Sunday" edition, a hybrid of features from the former Saturday street-sales-only paper and sections from

2074-453: The end of September. News of the change was first revealed the night before in a blog post by New York Times media writer David Carr . A new company, NOLA Media Group, was created to oversee both the paper and its website, NOLA.com. Along with the change in its printing schedule, Advance also announced that significant cuts would be coming to the newsroom and staff of the Picayune . A second new company, Advance Central Services Louisiana,

2135-465: The first internet webcams to carry a live news event. In early 1998, that site was superseded by www.nolalive.com, launched by Advance Publications . The site's format was similar to other websites launched in connection with Advance newspapers in New Jersey; Cleveland, Ohio; Michigan; Oregon; and Alabama. Although nolalive.com was affiliated with The Times-Picayune and posted content created by

2196-525: The first time a Pulitzer had been awarded for online journalism. In a January 14, 2006 address to the American Bar Association Communications Lawyers Forum, Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss commented on perhaps the most significant challenge that the staff faced then and continued to face as the future of New Orleans is contemplated: For us, Katrina is and will be a defining moment of our lives,

2257-596: The largest American city not to have a daily newspaper , until The Advocate of Baton Rouge began publishing a New Orleans edition each day to fill the perceived gap on August 18, 2013. On June 12, 2012, Advance followed through with its layoff plans, as about 200 Times-Picayune employees (including almost half of the newsroom staff) were notified that they would lose their jobs. In January 2013, NOLA Media Group moved its news-gathering operation, along with sales, marketing, and other administrative functions, from its building at 3800 Howard Avenue, New Orleans, to offices on

2318-610: The league president and secretary, he was also the owner of the Pittsburgh club. On March 14 and 15, 1887, after a series of meetings throughout the winter, team representatives met at the Douglass Institute in Baltimore to finalize the schedule. Acknowledging the experimental nature of the new league, the various delegates kept the schedule short leaving "plenty of open dates between championship games, so as to permit

2379-475: The meeting announcing the league's opening day would be June 7 in Atlanta, Georgia and would feature the Georgia Champions and the Memphis Eclipse. The schedules were left to the team directors and managers to workout by June 1. Although no comprehensive schedule is currently known to exist some local newspapers did publish their teams schedules in early June. The Charleston News and Courier published

2440-404: The nameplates of both The Times-Picayune and The New Orleans Advocate , began publication on July   1. The Times-Picayune ' s first foray onto the internet came in 1995, with the www.NewOrleans.net website. Among the website's features was the "Bourbocam", placed in the window of a French Quarter bar to broadcast images of Bourbon Street. During the 1996 Mardi Gras , it was one of

2501-553: The newspaper and web staff set up operations at The Houma Courier and in Baton Rouge , on the Louisiana State University campus. A small team of reporters and photographers volunteered to stay behind in New Orleans to report from the inside on the city's struggle, looting, and desperation. They armed themselves for security and worked out of a private residence. The August 30, August 31, and September 1 editions were not printed, but were available online, as

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2562-402: The other for highest fielding percentage at the end of the season. The league consisted of eight teams: The Baltimore Lord Baltimores , Boston Resolutes , Louisville Falls Citys , New York Gorhams , Philadelphia Pythians , Pittsburgh Keystones , Washington Capital Citys , and Cincinnati Browns . Neither Washington nor Cincinnati would play a game as they "failed to put up their bonds" at

2623-486: The paper began printing again, first in Houma, La., and beginning September 15, 2005, in Mobile, Ala.; it resumed publication in New Orleans on October 10, 2005. The paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its storm coverage. Several of its staff reporters also received the award for breaking news reporting for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina––Gordon Russell, Jed Horne and Bob Marshall––marking

2684-728: The paper endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for President. It endorsed Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. In gubernatorial contests it endorsed Mike Foster , Bobby Jindal , and David Vitter . In the mayoral race of 2006 , The Times-Picayune endorsed right-leaning Democrat Ron Forman in the primary election and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu in the runoff . The Picayune endorsed Governor candidate Edwin Washington Edwards in 1971 and 1975. Still, it went against him in 1983 (endorsing incumbent David C. Treen ), 1987 (endorsing challenger and eventual winner Buddy Roemer ), and 1991 (endorsed Roemer in

2745-530: The paper more than tripled its circulation. The paper became The Times-Picayune after merging in 1914 with its rival, the New Orleans Times-Democrat . From 1947 to 1958, the paper operated a radio station, WTPS, launching first on FM at 94.7 MHz on January 3, 1947, and adding an AM station at 1450 kHz a year later. WTPS(AM) later moved to 940 kHz . The stations primarily aired music, but also included newscasts drawn from

2806-527: The paper to a daily printing schedule (including the "early" Sunday edition offered at newsstands on Saturdays). The TP Street edition first went on sale Monday, June 24, 2013. The new edition removed from New Orleans the designation as the largest city in the United States without its own daily newspaper; with The Times-Picayune and the New Orleans edition of The Advocate , the city now has two. However, in reporting its print circulation figures to

2867-441: The paper's initial price was one picayune , a Spanish coin equivalent to 6¼¢ (half a bit , or one-sixteenth of a dollar ). Under Eliza Jane Nicholson , who inherited the struggling paper when her husband died in 1876, the Picayune introduced innovations such as society reporting (known as the "Society Bee" columns), children's pages, and the first women's advice column, which was written by Dorothy Dix . Between 1880 and 1890,

2928-480: The paper's staff and live broadcasts of local high school, college, and professional sports. Both stations went off the air in 1958. In 1962, Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. , bought The Times-Picayune and the other remaining New Orleans daily, the afternoon States-Item . The papers were merged on June 2, 1980 and were known as The Times-Picayune/States-Item (except on Sundays; the States-Item did not publish

2989-485: The paper's staff. On August 8, 2006, staff photographer John McCusker was arrested and hospitalized after he led police on a high-speed chase and then used his vehicle as a weapon, apparently hoping that they would kill him . McCusker was released from the hospital by mid-August, saying he could not recall the incident at all, which was apparently sparked by the failure to receive an insurance settlement for his damaged house. On December 13, 2007, Judge Camille Buras reduced

3050-421: The primary, but switched to Edwards in the general election due to Edwards' opponent being former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke ). The T-P also stung Edwards in 1979 even though he was barred from running for a third term, refusing to endorse Edwards' hand-picked candidate, Louis Lambert , in favor of Treen in the primary and general elections. The Times-Picayune was awarded a 1997 Pulitzer Prize for

3111-522: The printed Times-Picayune . NOLA.com also offers apps for mobile and tablet users; The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate offers subscribers an e-edition only. The writers William Faulkner and O. Henry worked for The Times-Picayune . The Louisiana historian Sue Eakin was formerly a Times-Picayune columnist. Bill Minor headed the paper's news bureau in Jackson, Mississippi from 1946 until it closed in 1976. A weekly political column

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3172-456: The site's forums and blogs, posting pleas for help, offering aid, and directing rescuers. NOLA's nurturing of so-called citizen journalism on a massive scale was hailed by many journalism experts as a watershed, while several agencies credited the site with leading to life-saving rescues and reunions of scattered victims after the storm. After deciding to evacuate on Tuesday, August 30, because of rising floodwaters and possible security threats,

3233-544: Was able to restart publication following Hurricane Katrina , the newspaper printed a strongly worded open letter to President George W. Bush in its September 4, 2005, edition, criticizing him for the federal government's response to the disaster, and calling for the firing of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Michael D. Brown . Brown tendered his resignation eight days later. The Times-Picayune long continued to editorialize on FEMA. A searing editorial on April 18, 2009, lambasted FEMA and labeled "insulting"

3294-528: Was also the newspaper home of Lolis Eric Elie , who wrote a thrice-weekly metro column before he went on to write for television, most notably HBO's Treme and AMC's Hell on Wheels . Already widely known, the journalist and television commentator Iris Kelso joined The Times-Picayune in 1979. She had been particularly known for her coverage of the civil rights movement . The Times-Picayune endorsed George W. Bush for President in 2000, but endorsed no Presidential candidate in 2004. In 2008 and 2012,

3355-617: Was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina . Four of The Times-Picayune 's staff reporters also received Pulitzers for breaking news reporting for their storm coverage. The paper funded the Edgar A. Poe Award for journalistic excellence, which was presented annually by the White House Correspondents' Association from 1990 to 2019. Established as The Picayune in 1837 by Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall ,

3416-472: Was created to print and deliver the newspaper. The decision to end daily circulation led to protests calling for continued publication for the common good ; fifty local businesses wrote an open letter to the Newhouse family, urging them to sell the paper instead since they had stated it was still profitable. An ad hoc group of community institutions and civic leaders, The Times-Picayune Citizens Group,

3477-473: Was formed to seek alternatives for the continued daily publication of the newspaper. In October 2012, The Times-Picayune began publishing its broadsheet paper on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. Along with the change, the paper began publishing a special tabloid-sized edition following Sunday and Monday New Orleans Saints football games and an "early" Sunday broadsheet edition, available on Saturdays. The thrice-weekly publication schedule made New Orleans

3538-503: Was held on May 22 attended by twenty-two delegates in Jacksonville. During the meeting T. T. Hardin read a prepared report about the league and made recommendations that were adopted by the delegates. It was also decided at the convention that a series of exhibition games would be held May 24 in St. Augustine, Florida. The games would feature the Daisy Cutters, Clippers, Macedonians, Tallapoosas, and Greenleafs. The delegates left

3599-697: Was named Advance Media Southeast, registered in New Orleans. A facility to design and produce the pages of The Times-Picayune and four newspapers in Alabama and Mississippi— The Birmingham News , the Mobile Press-Register , The Huntsville Times , and The Mississippi Press in Pascagoula—was opened in January 2016 in a former suburban bureau of The Times-Picayune in Metairie , emptying

3660-457: Was the first to be printed in Mobile. The New Orleans presses were to be decommissioned. The circulation numbers for the printed Times-Picayune were the largest newspaper in Louisiana until the end of 2014. By then, declines in its sales, combined with circulation gains by The Advocate , dropped The Times-Picayune to second place behind The Advocate . NOLA Media Group announced on June 15, 2015, that it would join with Alabama Media Group in

3721-421: Was the paper's breaking news blog : Hurricane Katrina struck metropolitan New Orleans on Monday with a staggering blow, far surpassing Hurricane Betsy , the landmark disaster of an earlier generation. The storm flooded huge swaths of the city, as well as Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain , in a process that appeared to be spreading even as night fell. After three days of online-only publication,

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