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Author Archives: Tyler Bridges

Tyler Bridges covers Louisiana politics and public policy for The Lens. He returned to New Orleans in 2012 after spending the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where he studied digital journalism. Prior to that, he spent 13 years as a reporter for the Miami Herald, where he was twice a member of Pulitzer Prize-winning teams while covering state government, the city of Miami and national politics. He also was a foreign correspondent based in South America. Before the Herald, he covered politics for seven years at The Times-Picayune. He is the author of The Rise of David Duke (1994) and Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (2001). He can be reached at (504) 810-6222.

Jindal's path to be determined by presidential election results

by Tyler BridgesOctober 4, 2012November 7, 2019

What’s next, Bobby? In a career marked by a series of stepping-stone jobs – with the White House increasingly apparent as the ultimate goal –  Gov. Bobby Jindal’s future will depend on who wins November’s presidential election. Ironically, a victory for his party’s standard-bearer, Mitt Romney, would force Jindal to postpone his presidential ambitions until […]

For a reporter, New Orleans is simply irresistible

by Tyler BridgesSeptember 19, 2012November 7, 2019

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