John Georges, who bought The Advocate in 2013, now has bought its biggest competitor

NEW ORLEANS — It was an ink-stained fight between David and Goliath when The Advocate opened its New Orleans office in 2012. The New York-based Newhouse family, which bought The Picayune in 1962, banked big on Nola.com and cut daily circulation of the paper.

New Orleanians were outraged, and Baton Rouge's Manship family began to print a daily New Orleans edition of The Advocate. A year later, John and Dathel Georges made headlines when they bought the paper and poached many Picayune veterans.