Behind The Lens episode 140: ‘Ready to host’

New Orleans & Co. pulls its national tourism ad campaign. A car chase initiated by a state trooper leads to a crash in Lakeview. And a dramatic increase in cases and quarantines among city students and school staff.

This week on Behind The Lens, as the fourth surge drags on, the marketing agency for New Orleans tourism pulls its national ad campaign.

In criminal justice news, a high-speed car chase involving the Louisiana State Police resulted in injury for a seven-month-old child. And COVID cases were down this week in prisons statewide after a big jump a week ago. 

COVID cases and quarantines among New Orleans public schools students and staff are up dramatically while the OPSB votes on a vaccine mandate for its employees.

Our guests this week are government and cultural economy reporter Michael Isaac Stein, criminal justice reporter Nick Chrasti, and Lens editor Charles Maldonado.

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Carolyne Heldman

Carolyne Heldman Rovira has been in media for 35 years, and is currently the podcast host and producer for Behind The Lens. Heldman served as executive director at Aspen Public Radio, an NPR affiliate, where she launched four weekly news, public affairs, and cultural affairs programs. She has been a guest lecturer at Tulane University, is a frequent guest and moderator for the Aspen Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute.