The Barbados Advocate

The Barbados Advocate was founded in 1895{{Cite news |last=Hoyos |first=F. A. |date=6 September 1952 |title=Our Common Heritage: Valence Gale |url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00098964/02980/zoom/3 |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=The Barbados Advocate |pages=4}} by Valence Gale, who had gotten his start at the Barbados Agricultural Reporter. Gale died in 1908, leaving controlling interest in the paper to his wife, Clara Gale (née Chenery).{{Cite news |date=13 December 1951 |title=Obituary for Mrs. C. A. Gale |url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00098964/02758/zoom/3 |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Barbados Advocate |pages=4}} Gale's son, Valence C. Gale, served as manager from 1919 and later managing director of the paper; his brother-in-law, C. L. Chenery as editor.{{Cite news |last=Noyos |first=F. A. |date=October 4, 1952 |title=Our Common Heritage no 24: Charles Chenery |url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00098964/03004/zoom/3 |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Barbados Advocate |location=Bridgetown, Barbados |pages=4}} When Chenery died in 1925, Gale's younger son, C. A. Louis Gale, served as the paper's editor for 30 years.{{Cite news |date=4 March 1955 |title=Obituary: Mr C. A. L. Gale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259411728 |url-access=subscription |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=The Guardian |location=London, England}}

In 1946, the Advocate had a circulation of 7,000 on weekdays and 12,000 on Sundays and was still under its original ownership.{{Cite news |date=30 November 1946 |title=BWI Daily Appoints [Representative] |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1946-11-30_79_49/page/48/mode/2up |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Editor and Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |volume=79 |issue=49}}

In 1954, the newspaper joined the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).{{Cite news |date=2 October 1954 |title=IAPA Reaches Record Membership of 323 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1954-10-02_87_41/page/40/mode/2up |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Editor & Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |volume=87 |issue=41}} In 1960, it was joined by the Daily Star, which became a new Barbados' daily newspaper.{{Cite news |date=28 May 1960 |title=Cozier Gives Barbados Second Daily Paper |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1960-05-28_93_22/page/44/mode/2up |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Editor and Publisher |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |volume=93 |issue=22}} In 1961, two British companies acquired a majority interest in the paper.{{Cite news |date=1961-06-24 |title=British Groups Buy Papers in Barbados |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1961-06-24_94/page/26/mode/2up |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Editor & Publisher |page=26 |volume=94}}

The newspaper was purchased by (the then) Anthony T. Bryan in 2000 and he became the first Black publisher in the newspaper's history. In 2020, Sir Anthony Bryan died,{{Cite web |title=Obituary for Sir Anthony Bryan |url=https://lyndhurstfuneralhome.com/events/sir-anthony-bryan/ |access-date=3 February 2025 |website=Lyndhurst Funeral Home |publication-place=Barbados}}{{Cite news |date=5 June 2020 |title=Sir Anthony Bryan passes away |url=https://www.nationnews.com/2020/06/05/sir-anthony-bryan-passes-away/ |access-date=3 February 2025 |work=Nation News}} leading to a protracted legal battle over ownership of the paper.{{Cite news |date=24 September 2021 |title=Advocate staff go without pay after late publisher's assets frozen |url=https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/24/advocate-staff-go-without-pay-after-late-publishers-assets-frozen/ |work=Barbados Today}}{{cite news|title=The end of an era: Sir Anthony Bryan, pioneer of publishing and broadcasting, passes away |first=Dorian |last=Bryan |url=https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/news/end-era-0 |newspaper=The Barbados Advocate |date=6 June 2020 |access-date=3 February 2025 |quote=Those words can ably describe Publisher, Owner and Chairman of the Barbados Advocate, Sir Anthony T. Bryan KA, CHB, GCM, JP, who passed away yesterday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a brief illness. |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= }}

The Advocate is a colour newspaper covering a wide array of topics, including:

• Business
• Sports
• Entertainment news
• Politics
• Editorials
• Special features
• Investigative journalism; and
• Local, regional, and international news

The headquarters of the Barbados Advocate is in the Fontabelle neighbourhood in Saint Michael parish, in western Bridgetown.

• Media in Barbados
• Barbadian companies

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• [http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/ The Barbados Advocate] (in Barbados)
• [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00086495.1976.11829281 Oldest Existing Commonwealth Caribbean Newspapers]

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