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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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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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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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. […]
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