Robert Angers - Journalism Career

Journalism Career

Angers began his journalism career upon graduation from LSU with his hometown Abbeville Progress. After wartime service, he became in 1945 the advertising manager in 1945 of the Weekly Iberian and New Iberia Enterprise. With his father and brother, Allen, Angers co-owned Angers Real Estate Agency in New Iberia from 1946–1950, when he became the publisher of the Franklin Banner-Tribune in Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish. During his fifteen years at the Banner-Tribune, the newspaper converted from a weekly to a daily publication and won 150 state and national press association awards.

In 1961, Angers co-founded with future Lafayette Mayor Kenny Bowen, Angers, Bowen and Associates public relations firm in Lafayette He sold his interest to Bowen in 1962. From 1966-1968, Angers was an editorial writer and columnist of the Lafayette Daily Advertiser. He founded the Jeanerette Weekly Journal (1964–1965), Southwest Louisiana Capitalist (1963), and Acadiana Profile magazine (1968), which covers twenty-two South Louisiana parishes and is the longest-running still active magazine in Louisiana history. Assisted by his wife, Angers edited and published Acadiana Profile from 1968–1985, when his son took over the management. His last job in journalism was again at the Lafayette Daily Advertiser as business editor from 1985 until his death in 1988. From 1967-1968, Angers was also editor of Latin American Report magazine in New Orleans. He founded the Acadian News Agency, which syndicated his public affairs editorials to Louisiana newspapers. Trent Angers acquired the news agency in 1970.