Award-winning reporter Katy Reckdahl is a new staff writer with The Lens. Reckdahl was a staff reporter for The Times-Picayune and the alt-weekly Gambit before spending a decade as a freelancer, writing frequently for the New Orleans Advocate | Times-Picayune, The New York Times and the Washington Post. She’s received more than two-dozen first-place New […]
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Posted inEnvironment, Events
Our Breakfast with the Newsmakers event will examine Trump’s effect on the environment
Come talk with us about what local coastal advocates can do to address likely changes
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Opposing opinions on river diversions show contentious nature of coastal master plan
Are sediment diversions a dangerous experiment or coastal savior?
Posted inInside the News Room
The Lens named finalist for 6 Press Club of New Orleans awards
Categories include Investigative reporting, best news site, best blog affiliated with a news site, continuing news coverage, community news and social media.
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Pulitzer winner Bob Marshall to cover environment for The Lens
Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental journalist Bob Marshall has joined the staff of The Lens, where he will bring his widely recognized expertise to bear on issues of wetlands restoration, flood protection and coastal erosion. Bob Marshall Marshall was a reporter and columnist at The Times-Picayune for more than 30 years. He joined The Lens this month, […]
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Replay: Thursday night panel on future of media in New Orleans
Video streaming by Ustream Presented by the Press Club of New Orleans. Video provided through The Lens, in conjunction with the New Orleans Digital News Alliance
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If you suspect illegal lead-paint sanding, who ya gonna call?
Deputy Mayor Michelle Thomas and acting Director of the Department of Safety and Permits Pura Bascos addressed a City Council committee to discuss the permitting process for the removal of lead paint, but they didn’t have all the answers. Although a city ordinance was passed in 2001 detailing the proper procedure for the removal of […]
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Lens co-founder wins award for report on NOPD victim policy
Karen Gadbois, co-founder of The Lens and a staff writer, is the 2012 recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual Ethics in Journalism Award, the organization announced today. Previous winners include writers for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Entries are considered each year, but the organization withholds […]
Posted inOpinion
The Lens retracts opinion piece regarding St. Claude Ave. parkettes
The Lens is retracting and apologizing to Candy Chang for an opinion piece about “parkettes” on St. Claude Avenue that appeared in this space Thursday. The article contended that Chang, the co-founder of the design company Civic Center, is pushing an effort to build “parkettes” along St. Claude Avenue. This is not true. Civic Center […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations
After storm, flood, frustration and demolition, family finally gets a home
By Bob Butler, Fellow, G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, and Danielle Bell, The Lens staff writer | Seven years to the day since Jewell and Kisa Holmes moved into their first house in New Orleans, they moved into their second. What happened in between was a tale of financial confusion, pressure, bureaucracy and frustration that is sadly […]