Times picayune 2012 05 24

Appears In:

New Orleans Times-Picayune to publish just 3 days a week

New Orleans is losing its daily newspaper, one of the oldest in the United States.

Times-Picayune joins dozens of papers that have cut circulation, size

The paper will print three times a week as ad revenues continue to decline.

Times-Picayune lays off one-third of its staff

The Times-Picayune announced Tuesday that it was shrinking its staff by 201 employees, whose last day at the paper will be Sept. 30.

Front pages from the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans and the Sun Herald of Biloxi and Gulfort, Miss., in the 'Covering Katrina' exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC, on Aug. 26, 2010.

Saul Loeb

AFP/Getty Images