The Advocate Reviews

As a 1960 LSU Alumni, and current resident of Spanish Fort, Alabama, due to displacement by Hurricane Katrina, I very much enjoy screening the Baton Rouge Advocate digital summary edition each morning. I feel confident when newsworthy events happen in the BR area or on the LSU Campus I can follow it closely in that summary. I also forward certain items on along to interested friends and family. I am always impressed with the authenticity displayed by Advocate staff writers.
I am also proud to mention that during my Junior and Senior years at LSU I proudly served as a part time Sports Reporter for the then BR Morning Advocate, covering high school football on Friday nights. That was a truly rewarding experience (in more ways than one!).
In summary, as shown above, I do not hesitate to give the Baton Rouge Advocate a 5 Star Rating.
Geaux Advocate,
Walter Fulton

I have stayed away from News Apps because they are only selling ads that you MUST watch interspersed with the news content I was looking for. The Advocate’s E-Version gives me the newspaper in the same format at the printed edition delivered to my home, and I pinch-and-zoom or select the articles I want to read. It’s like a paper edition, only it’s an image (like a pdf). It’s great. The ads are on the pages, just like the printed copy, but the ads don’t fill the page and require you to hunt for the X to close the ad. I have a paid subscription to the printed edition, and I don’t recall whether it requires my subscription Login info to allow me to access the e-edition.

Great app. Excellent for reading the articles on my IPad. I can make the text as large as I want for reading because I read almost every article every day and need a slightly large font. I use both the subscription version and the free version and like both.

TheAdvocate has a slew of navigational aides allowing the user to find any article quickly. It also has a slew of sharing features so I can send articles to friends or post them on-line easily.

Highly recommended.

I live in Northeast Louisiana and reading the Baton Rouge Advocate by App is an absolute joy for me.
Baton Rouge is the Capital of Louisiana and the current news that TheAdvocate provides is so beneficial because I love to read current, up to date information regarding the state of Louisiana.
TheAdvocate is very easy to navigate and find information regarding different topics and the daily print version is just as beneficial as the digital content App.
TheAdvocate is just overall a great format to read and I thoroughly enjoying using it each day..

Living away from home year after year means we need TheAdvocate. It’s the main way we stay connected. The coverage is tilted right and respectful of the left - like many people who claim to be fiscally responsible / conservative and socially moderate / liberal. Love the LSU coverage but wish they would cover more than fat-man-in-the-stands sporting news. More and more women and no traditional (football, basketball, and baseball) sports are important- at least online. Lead. Don’t follow if you’re a college town with national roots.

I have been using it for a few years now and it comes in very handy when l am out of town. I normally spend about five months at my camp in Grand Isle and about a month at my daughter house in Montana. When l am in BR l receive the paper addition. To avoid touching extra surfaces during CV outbreak l have started back with the e-edition while at home. I have been reading the Advocate daily for 60 years.

I’ve subscribed to the Advocate for forty years because it’s an outstanding, locally owned paper. A few years ago I added the e-edition to my print paper but then dropped the print because the e-edition is so much easier to read on an iPad. The e-edition requires a subscription which is well worth the money! I’m not as happy with the visual layout of TheAdvocate for updated breaking news, but that’s a relatively minor quibble.

The Advocate app is a great asset to me. I grew up in Baton Rouge and Zachary but have lived all over the country and have been settled in NC since 2001. TheAdvocate allows me to keep up with my LSU Tigers and other things in the area and the state. I also follow my current news paper’s app and I must say the Advocate’s app is much better. I do have one issue, the Advocate app has quit loading on my IPhone altogether. Thankfully I can still read it on my IPad.

Johnny and I have been married for almost 55 years and we always subscribed to The Advocate and the state Times until the state times went away for the 55 years as well as many other people subscribed. As habit plays it I can’t get anything done UNTIL I get the paper. Thanks Barbara LUNEAU

Whoever is in charge of the appears to be not up to task. A while back, TheAdvocate would just spin its wheels instead of opening up, because of which I deleted TheAdvocate . Not long ago, I decided to install TheAdvocate again. Although TheAdvocate itself now opens up, what comes next indicates that The Advocate does not understand the concept of an app. After tapping on a story, what is almost always shown is the headline only. Even the teasers don't show.

If The Advocate is not going to have a proper app, it should be removed from TheAdvocate store.

As soon as I finish this, I will delete TheAdvocate .

We do quite a bit of traveling. Having the E edition is wonderful. We can always read our local paper each morning with our coffee. Plus when we are home, never have to go to the curb to get the paper. In addition, never have newspaper trash. The only time we miss the paper copy is during crawfish season. Lol

It is great but wish you could fix TheAdvocate .

When a user is reading the obituaries, TheAdvocate takes you out of that section after reading just one and brings you back to the home page, thus making the user go back manually to the obituaries section making it time consuming, does that make sense?

I prefer reading the edition because it’s easier to read articles. End of clumsy handling of pages to read articles. Stop killing trees which makes it more ecologically friendly and I don’t have to worry about receiving a wet newspaper when it has rained heavily.

I hate having to stare at the Lee Michael’s logo EVERY TIME, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I open TheAdvocate . If it were an instant, that would be fine. But it lasts WAY to long. Instead of reminding me to shop & enticing me with suggestions at Lee Michael’s like the print ads in The Advocate do, this makes me hate Lee Michael’s & never want to set foot in the shop or purchase anything again from there ever.

Also, I hate the formatting of the news items.

Am traveling and have used TheAdvocate to stay in touch. Also like the notifications, and the ability to go to the section of the paper I want to go to, without going thru the whole paper.

My wife and I admire the well-rounded presentations of pictures, opinion articles, news stories, comics and sports by The Advocate. Newspapers are under-appreciated for the deep impact they have on our societies. Newspapers are much more than just another business.

I appreciate the effort they put into providing local news to those of us living, working and/or traveling out of the area.
I find TheAdvocate crashes. The select all option fails during seven out of ten attempts.
The read rate is painfully slow, I have to set the Speaking Rate to max in order to tolerate the slow speed.
Finding the new article announced by the icon is trying.

I have been reading the “State Times”, “Morning Advocate”, “Sunday Advocate” my whole life. I am glad that you still have the Advocate left. I am glad that evolution did not take it from us. I read it everyday even though it is from my phone. Thanks for keeping it up.

Checking in on the Advocate app catches me up on the news around Baton Rouge each and every day. I live out of state now but can feel like I’m right back at home in Louisiana by reading the Advocate app as though I was still a local newspaper subscriber. Very thankful for it!

We enjoy receiving The Advocate every day& our delivery person(Andre) is always right on time. I do have a question:Is the television section going to return ? We really liked seeing what would be on that evening.

Thanks,
S. Aparicio

It took me nearly a year to get used to reading the “paper” on my phone but now I love it. I really like seeing the layout just like a well done print Ed. and I like being able to print or post a story on social media. My biggest gripe is enlarging a print page for easier reading and have it snap back in place with just a slight touch. This is aggravating. I see this problem has been mostly corrected but not entirely. Also there is a problem sometimes with the margins not fitting correctly within the corners of the screen when I enlarge something. I absolutely love the creation of the investigative journalism project. You will have more to cover than you can handle. Thank you Advocate. I have been a regular reader for nearly 45 yrs.