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New Orleans TV stations WWL, WGNO brace for changes, possible layoffs as parent companies merge
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1123+ words) Local New Orleans television stations WWL Louisiana and WGNO-TV are bracing for changes, and potentially layoffs, as a result of the merger of broadcast giants Nexstar and TEGNA, which own the two local stations as well as hundreds of'others across…...
Letters: Newspaper’s section on Norman Francis was exceptional
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (46+ words) Letters: Newspaper's section on Norman Francis was exceptional'NOLA.com I would like to thank you for publishing the supplement that was in the newspaper on March 1, "Remembering Norman Francis." What an incredible human being. Reading it makes me want to…...
Letters log March 5-12: Headlines grab attention, criticism
2+ week, 6+ day ago (280+ words) Headline writing is an art. On the printed page, headlines, of course, are limited to the space allowed. That's why you see headline writers use shorthand or abbreviations to condense the point of news stories into four- or five-word phrases....
Former Washington Post journalist Hank Stuever joins The Times-Picayune and The Advocate
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (362+ words) Former Washington Post journalist Hank Stuever is joining The Times-Picayune and The Advocate as its managing editor for enterprise journalism, adding another veteran editor to the newsroom's ranks as it expands its ambitions across Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Stuever,…...
Letters: One day’s news report showed why newspapers are vital
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (60+ words) Letters: One day's news report showed why newspapers are vital'NOLA.com Peter Kovacs, editor of The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, reads the first combined newspaper after it rolls off the presses at the printing facility in Baton Rouge, La.,…...
Growing together for over 115 years
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (560+ words) This article is brought to you by ExxonMobil. Louisiana has changed too. Louisiana's rich natural resources, strong, skilled workforce, robust transportation infrastructure and diverse manufacturing and industrial capacity have launched the state into a league of its own. But one…...
Letters: Walt Handelsman kept news from being too depressing
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (70+ words) Letters: Walt Handelsman kept news from being too depressing'NOLA.com It is all I can do, most days, to make it past the first section of the paper with my sanity intact. Thank you, so very much, Walt Handelsman, for…...
Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman retiring after decades covering Louisiana
4+ mon, 15+ hour ago (1181+ words) Editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman at work, in a self-portrait. The announcement that the Times-Picayune won their first two pulitzers at the paper April 8, 1997. Walt Handelsman won for cartooning and Oceans of Trouble earned the public service award. Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial…...
Former Times-Picayune environmental journalist wins national award for volunteer work
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (443+ words) Longtime Times-Picayune journalist Mark Schleifstein is being recognized with a national award for his decades of volunteer work in service of environmental journalism. The Society of Environmental Journalists has named Schleifstein the 2025 recipient of its David Stolberg Meritorious Service Award....
Top prizes for commentary writing awarded to The Times-Picayune | The Advocate journalists
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (617+ words) Opinion journalists of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate received awards from a national journalism trade association for their editorial writing and commentary on rural Louisiana, vaccines and women's health care." America's Newspapers, a group made up of about 1,500 newspaper and…...