Former AAN Publisher Returns With New Paper
By AAN Staff
july 23, 2003 07:16 pm
Steve May, who owned Lafayette,
Louisiana's highly
regarded Times of Acadiana until selling it
in 1998, plans to return to the market in September
with a new weekly paper. May and his wife, Cherry
Fisher May, last month bought a monthly lifestyle
magazine and will convert it to a weekly to compete
with the Times, which is now owned by
Gannett, also the publisher of the Lafayette's
only daily paper. "They have screwed up
my
newspaper so badly and I think it’s part of a plan to
steadily bleed The Times of character and influence
and somehow, divert it into the daily," May says.