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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

Landrieu: Those who quit chief search were throwing bricks, not building bridges

April 7, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

What do you want to ask Landrieu about chief search?

April 7, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Landrieu transition team: We're not required to follow state sunshine laws

March 30, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Police chief search leader: Open-records laws don't apply

March 29, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Despite initial confusion, gift to Zulu is alive and well

March 12, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

What price crunk?

March 11, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

City permits system unplugged because of unpaid bills

March 10, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

What did I know, and when did I know it?

January 27, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

City denies public-records request for pending contracts

January 21, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

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