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by Karen Gadbois
Chanel Debose

Nishant Dahiya, NPR

I spent 5 hours with this reporter trying to explain the Kafkaesque nature of these demolitions. “He did a good job of telling the story.”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18306959

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Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led to guilty pleas in federal court. Her work attracted some of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She can be reached at (504) 606-6013.

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