Veteran prize-winning reporter Tyler Bridges will become a staff writer with The Lens on Oct. 1, focusing on state-level public-policy decisions that affect the New Orleans area. Bridges is returning to New Orleans after a 16-year hiatus that took him from The Times-Picayune to The Miami Herald, where he was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
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Live chat: Share reactions, discuss our story on Landrieu’s political tactics
Talk with The Lens’ Tyler Bridges at 1:30 p.m. Friday.
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The Lens a finalist in eight Press Club of New Orleans award categories
Including best local news site, which we have won the past two years.
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Jindal’s national ambitions begin to tell on his effectiveness, lawmakers contend
A distant figure to most legislators in recent years, of late Jindal has become even more remote as he steps up out-of-state travels for a presumed presidential campaign. The question is whether Jindal’s presidential yearnings will undercut the home-state record he needs to run on.
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Talk the beat with Lens reporters at BrottWorks Design Studio on May 22
Reporters will talk to Lens members about how they do their work.
TALK THE BEAT WITH LENS REPORTERS
Take the mystery out of digital media! Mix and mingle with Lens reporters on Thursday evening, May 22, at BrottWorks Design Studio. The Lens — New Orleans’ leading non-profit newsroom — wants our readers to understand exactly how we go about the business of investigative, public-interest journalism. Founder Karen Gadbois will team with reporter Charles Maldonado to illuminate […]
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Live chat Thursday: Talk to Pres Kabacoff about downtown redevelopment
He’ll take questions from Lens readers at noon Thursday.
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Keep an eye on next week’s jobs data — state’s ‘rebirth’ hangs in the balance
An unemployment uptick could cost Gov. Jindal some of his favorite talking points.
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Reporter Charles Maldonado joins The Lens to hold government accountable
Staff expansion continues as more readers, donors and partners appreciate out work.
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Convention Center officials envision iconic sculpture on former World Trade Center site
According to a document obtained by The Lens, the shuttered, 33-story World Trade Center would be demolished, and a towering sculpture and a park – meant to become a tourism icon for the city of New Orleans — would be built in its place at the foot of Canal Street.