Former AAN Publisher Returns With New Paper

july 23, 2003  07:16 pm
Former AAN Publisher Returns With New Paper
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.