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The six-year newspaper war in New Orleans came to an abrupt halt today, as John and Dathel Georges, owners of The Advocate and The New Orleans Advocate, announced to the ...
We're approaching 25,000 (readers in New Orleans). We picked up 10,000 subscribers since the last report (from Alliance for Audited Media). We're taking profits and reinvesting in the paper.
The Advocate is Louisiana’s largest daily print newspaper, based in Baton Rouge. As of last week, it has a new owner.New Orleans businessman John Georges… ...
John Georges, center, his wife Dathel, right, and editor Peter Kovacs tell the staff of The New Orleans about his purchase of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La. Thursday, May 2, 2019.
NEW ORLEANS -- John Georges has never been an elected public official. Instead, he’s been making millions in the business world. And he wants to make sure voters in the governor’s race know that.
John Georges has dozens of familiar names on the roster of supporters of his yet-to-be-announced bid for mayor, including several Republican Party heavy hitters. Georges, a former Republican who ...
The sale of The Advocate newspaper to local business magnate John Georges will bring with it more than a change in ownership. It will mark a significant expansion of the newspaper's New Orleans ...
After closing earlier this year after the death of its owner, the former Michaul’s Restaurant and Cajun Dance Hall was sold at auction earlier this month to businessman John Georges.. According to ...
Georges got the political bug and ran for governor in 2007, losing to to Bobby Jindal, and then for mayor of New Orleans in 2010, losing to Mitch Landrieu. “A great experience,” he told me in ...
“The New Orleans version of The Advocate became The Times-Picayune in exile,” Peter Kovacs, The Advocate ’s editor and a veteran Times-Pic newsman who was laid off in the 2012 cuts, says. Georges ...
New Orleans businessman John Georges has become the majority owner of Galatoire's restaurant, among the most popular culinary landmarks in the city. On Tuesday, businessman Todd Trosclair also became ...