The Lens a finalist in eight Press Club of New Orleans award categories
Including best local news site, which we have won the past two years.
Author: Steve Myers
- About Steve Myers
- Steve Myers was editor of The Lens. Before joining the staff in 2012, Myers was managing editor of Poynter Online, the preeminent source of news and training about the journalism industry. At Poynter, he wrote about emerging media practices such as citizen journalism, nonprofit news sites, real-time reporting via social media, data-oriented news apps, iPhoneography, and the fact-checking movement. Six of his 10 years in newspapers were spent as a local government reporter in Mobile, Ala., where he focused on local government accountability, from jail management to hurricane preparation and response. He can be reached at (504) 298-9750.
The Lens launches The Vault to bring greater openness to government contracting
Starting with the city of New Orleans, we're uploading thousands of government contracts to make it easier to keep tabs on how local governments spend your money. What will you find?
Mississippi River levee bike path now unofficially open in Orleans Parish
Final work on the levee is expected to be done in about two weeks.
How The Lens is using Google Consumer Surveys to generate revenue
It's part of our path to sustainability.
Live chat: Discuss city’s storm protection system with Tulane professor, Corps of Engineers official
Join us at noon Friday to discuss issues raised about the flood protection system.
Live webcast: Charles Maldonado discusses NOPD, OPP consent decrees
Watch live here at 8 p.m. Thursday after WYES broadcasts a documentary examining the consent decrees.
Keith Hardie talks Audubon tax fight, Newcomb fence at Newsmakers event
Watch here at 8 a.m. Thursday; you'll have to supply the danishes and coffee.
Live chat: How well has the Landrieu administration dealt with blight in New Orleans?
The Lens' Charles Maldonado will talk with Lens readers at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Newcomb Boulevard fence comes down
Newcomb will be open to traffic, though a proposal is pending to make it one-way.
Video: The Lens interviews Coroner-elect Jeffrey Rouse at Newsmakers event
Charles Maldonado will interview Rouse at 8 a.m. Watch here if you can't attend in person.
