The Lens won four first-place awards and several additional top honors from the annual Press Club of New Orleans awards in 2024.

Awards:

First place in Feature Reporting/Serious Feature: Katy Reckdahl for “Revell Andrews: Picture of Potential”

First place in Education Reporting: Marta Jewson and Katy Reckdahl for “Living School Mom asks School Board: What’s more Important, Test Scores or Actual Students?’”

First Place in Governmental/Political Reporting: Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl for “A Group of ‘Violence Interrupters’ Worked the Streets of New Orleans to Prevent Retaliatory Shootings – Until they were Sidelined Two Years Ago”

First Place for Continuing Coverage: Delaney Dryfoos and La’Shance Perry for “David and Goliath: River Parish Residents take on Greenfield”

Second Place for Environmental Reporting: Delaney Dryfoos for “Marathon Proves Why it was the Last Refinery Built in the U.S.”

Third Place in General News Reporting: Katy Reckdahl for “The Car Never Started”

Third Place in Still Photography: La’Shance Perry for “Phase III Protest”