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Steve Beatty is the publisher and chief executive officer of The Lens. He worked as an editor for The Times-Picayune for 15 years, leaving New Orleans just before Katrina to take a position as an editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and quickly rising through the ranks to be an editor of the newspaper

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In chasing down stories, are we furthering the agendas of others?

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Johnson and Hedge-Morrell continue City Council stalemate

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A new look, but the same solid reporting from The Lens

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