The Daily Advertiser covers international, national, state, and local news in the six parishes of Lafayette, Acadia, Iberia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion.

[2] Louisiana journalist Robert Angers (1919–1988) worked at times for The Daily Advertiser, including his ultimate position as business editor from 1985 until his death.

In 1998, The Daily Advertiser bought the local alternative weekly, the Times of Acadiana.

[4] The Advertiser has been accused of protecting the Catholic Church during molestation charges brought against priests in the mid-1980s.

[5] Later, in 2014, it gave a prominent op-ed to William Donahue of the Catholic League defending the protection of accused priests by the Church,[6] a piece that has been criticized as containing substantial inaccuracies, by one of the lawyers who had defended the Church in the 1980s.