Author: Steve Beatty
- About Steve Beatty
- 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

UNO to create major newsroom, drawing work from The Lens

Forum set to let community have a say in changing news coverage

Four online newsrooms form cooperative to strengthen and promote journalism

The Lens teaming with WWNO, cultural nonprofit site NolaVie to broaden coverage

The Lens takes 1st-place awards at annual journalism competition
Open Society Foundations renew and increase funding for The Lens
In chasing down stories, are we furthering the agendas of others?

Johnson and Hedge-Morrell continue City Council stalemate
A new look, but the same solid reporting from The Lens
Welcome to the redesigned site of The Lens. We hope you like what you see here, and we want to hear your thoughts on the effort -- positive or negative. Please email Managing Editor Steve Beatty at sbeatty@TheLensNola.org. We'll do our best to incorporate your feedback to make this site the best it can be.