The Houma Courier


The Houma Courier is a newspaper published daily in Houma, Louisiana, United States, covering Terrebonne [Parish, Louisiana|Terrebonne Parish]. It is sometimes simply referred to as The Courier. The paper was founded in 1878 as Le Courrier de Houma by French-born Lafayette Bernard Filhucan Bazet. It first published in four-page, half-French half-English editions.
It was owned by Halifax Media Group until 2015, when In 2015, Halifax was acquired by GateHouse Media. GateHouse was later subsumed into Gannett.
The Courier has a daily circulation of 19,700 and a Sunday circulation of 22,100. Its online edition, Houma Today, was launched in May 1999.
The Courier won the Louisiana [Press Association]'s Newspaper of the Year award in various categories in 2017.