The Daily Comet

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Daily Comet
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	The New York Times Company
Publisher	Miles Forrest
Editor	Keith Magill
Founded	1889 (as the Lafourche Comet)
Headquarters	705 West Fifth Street Thibodaux, Louisiana 70302 United States

Website: dailycomet.com

The Daily Comet is a newspaper in Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States. It covers Lafourche, Assumption, the west bank of St. James and the northern part of Terrebonne parishes

It began publishing in 1889 as the weekly Lafourche Comet. It is the only paper currently published in America named "Comet". Its publisher, a Democrat, selected the name "Comet" because the rival Republican newspaper was named the Star. The publisher reasoned that a comet is brighter than a star.

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Corporate officers: Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (COB) · Janet L. Robinson (President & CEO) · Michael Golden · James Follo · Martin A. Nisenholtz · David K. Norton · Kenneth A. Richieri · R. Anthony Benten · Philip A. Ciuffo · Jennifer C. Dolan · Robert Kraft · Ann S. Kraus · James C. Lessersohn · Catherine J. Mathis · Stuart P. Stoller · David A. Thurm · Michael Zimbalist · Laurena L. Emhoff · Scott Heekin-Canedy · Bill Keller · Gail Collins · Michael Oreskes · Serge Schmemann · Richard J. Daniels · Mary Jacobus · Martin Baron · Renée Loth · P. Steven Ainsley · Raul E. Cesan · Lynn G. Dolnick · William E. Kennard · David E. Liddle · Ellen R. Marram · Thomas Middelhoff · Cathy J. Sulzberger · Doreen A. Toben · Dawn G. LePore · Robert E. Denham · Scott Galloway · James Kohlberg Daily newspapers: The Boston Globe · The Courier · The Daily Comet · The Dispatch · The Gadsden Times · The Gainesville Sun · International Herald Tribune · The Ledger · The New York Times · Petaluma Argus-Courier · The Press Democrat · Sarasota Herald-Tribune · Spartanburg Herald-Journal · Star-Banner · The Star-News · Telegram & Gazette · Times Daily · Times-News · The Tuscaloosa News Radio stations: FM: WQXR Cable television stations: New England Sports Network¹ · SNN News 6² Interactive assets: About.com · The New York Times Syndicate & News Service Other assets: Boston Red Sox¹ · Donohue Malbaie Inc. · Fenway Park¹ · Madison Paper Industries · Metro Boston¹ ¹The New York Times hold some ownership interests in these companies through joint ventures. ²Owned by The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, which in turn The Times owns and operates.

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