ORDER OF CEREMONY
Welcome Doug Mouton WWL-TV
President’s Remarks
Doug Mouton
WWL-TV
Master of Ceremonies
Lifetime Achievement Recipient
John “Spud” McConnell Bruce Nolan
The Times-Picayune
Special Award Presentation
Scholarship Presentations
Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Laura Jayne Loyola University
Margaret Orr
WDSU-TV
Silver Scribe Awards
Afterparty The afterparty will be held at the Marriot bar/
restaurant, Wolfe’s in the Warehouse lounge.
A Word From Our President
Welcome to the 59th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards Gala. Tonight, we celebrate the best in journalism and public relations for the 2016 calendar year. Your participation and attendance tonight is sincerely appreciated. If you’ve attended the Press Club Awards before, you’ll notice we changed up the program tonight, just to freshen things up. You might also notice in the last three years, there has been an evolution in the categories. We’ve either eliminated, changed, or added more than 40 categories. The net result is three fewer total categories than three years ago and more entries over a three-year period than at any point in Press Club history.
Doug Mouton WWL-TV
Doug Mouton is the Sports Director at WWL-TV in New Orleans. He’s a 30-year television veteran who began as an intern at WDSU-TV. From there, he got his first job at KEVN-TV in Rapid City, South Dakota. Following that, were jobs at KVHP-TV in Lake Charles, WGNO-TV, WEAR-TV in Pensacola, then finally, to Channel 4. Doug was just voted by the National Association of Sportswriters and Sportscasters as the 2016 Louisiana Sportscaster of the Year, for the second time. He’s also won an Emmy, an Edward R Murrow Award and more than a dozen first place awards from the Press Club of New Orleans. Doug is a New Orleans native, a longtime veteran of Record Bar in the Lake Forest Plaza, and an alumni of both Brother Martin High School and the University of New Orleans.
We have an amazingly hard working and dedicated Press Club board who are constantly working on interesting and useful professional development. So far this year, we have added a Podcast workshop, a Google workshop, and we are continuously searching for new ideas. Tonight, we’ll hand out two $2,500 scholarships to college students in the Mass Communications fields of Journalism, Broadcasting, and Public Relations. My goal is to increase those awards next year. If you have any ideas for new awards categories, or new professional development workshops, or anything that you think will make the Press Club more viable or fun, we’re all ears. This organization is for all of us. Before we sent the awards entries to our judges across the country, I personally vetted more than 400 of the entries. I did this to make sure things were entered in the correct categories, but mostly, just to make sure the links worked and that everyone would have a fair chance to compete. The process took me far longer than it should have because I found myself just watching and reading an incredible number of the entries – just for fun. I am extremely proud of the work produced by OUR Press Club. This is an enormously talented group. Congratulations tonight to all the finalists, to our amazing Lifetime Achievement recipients, and to our young scholarship winners. We hope you have fun tonight. Cheers, Doug Mouton President, Press Club of New Orleans 2016-18
ABOUT US
In 1957, nearly 100 journalists and public relations professionals gathered in modest quarters in the 200 block of Camp Street to organize the Press Club of New Orleans. The goal of the group was to promote and improve the field of journalism and its related professions through professional development. Today, Press Club activities include the professional, the educational and the social. The club’s 300plus members represent every level of their fields. We meet to help our colleagues in communications keep up with the latest inside information. Our goal is to ensure members reach their career potential through professional development, and to simply enjoy good times with peers. These are just a few of the reasons to join The Press Club of New Orleans.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2013-2016 Kevin Mumphrey OFFICERS
2010-2013 Christian Moises
Doug Mouton President WWL-TV
2008-2010 Greg Shepperd
Kevin Mumphrey Past President St. Tammany Parish Melanie Spencer 1st Vice President Renaissance Publishing Mona Duffel Jones 2nd Vice President Duffel & Associates
2006-2008 Rob Nelson 2003-2006 Dominic Massa 2001-2003 Belinda Hernandez 1999-2001 Matt Scallan 1998-1999 Rich Collins 1997-1998 Mark Schleifstein 1997 Sam Moore 1995-1997 Jeffrey Meitrodt 1994-1995 S. Lee Alexander 1992-1994 Kathy Finn 1990-1992 Mark Schleifstein
Media
1989-1990 Kit Gorman
David Thaddeus Baker The Louisiana Weekly
1988-1989 Bob Pavlovich
Chris Finch Fox 8
1985-1986 Randy Callendar
Gina Swanson WDSU-TV
1983-1984 Joe Puglia
1986-1988 Warren Bell
1984-1985 Larry Lorenz
1982-1983 Clancy DuBos 1980-1982 Tom Bell Public Relations Amy Barrios Multimedia Solutions Greg Buisson Buisson Creative
1979-1980 Hal Ledet 1977-1979 Ed Anderson 1976-1977 Guy King 1975-1976 Arnold Porsch 1973-1975 Clarence Doucet
Brittany Cruickshank DEVENEY
1972-1973 Fritz Harsdorff
Kristian Sonnier New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau
1968-1970 Mike Lala
1970-1972 Jack Dempsey
1967-1968 Bill Madden 1966-1967 Del Hall 1965-1966 Fritz Harsdorff 1964-1965 Emile Comar
Education Representative
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PAST PRESIDENTS
Laura Jayne Loyola University
1963-1964 Jerry Romig 1962-1963 Howard Jacobs 1961-1962 Bob Roesler 1960-1961 Alex Waller 1959-1960 Bill Madden 1958-1959 Emile Comar 1957-1958 Gabriel Gelb
MASTER OF CEREMONY
John “Spud” McConnell is a native of Gonzales, La., a resident of Metairie and a member of one of the oldest families in New Orleans, dating back to the 1790s.
John “Spud” McConnell
As a professional actor, performer and voice talent for more than 40 years, Spud has been onstage and backstage, on-air and producing on-air, as well as on camera in film, documentaries, industrials, sitcoms, and dramas. He has national and international acting and voice credits. He’s had recurring roles in five different network TV series. He has national, regional and local commercial credits, as well as New York and regional theatre credits. He’s produced and hosted his own radio talk show for 10 years. For his efforts, Spud was named “New Orleans Top Radio Talk Show Host” his last 2 years on the air by New Orleans Magazine and was regularly in the top three in Gambit’s “Best of New Orleans.” He’s also presently the co-creator and host of THE SPUDCAST on WLAE TV. Spud is also an award-winning editorial cartoonist from the Louisiana Press Association for weekly newspapers. His work has been published in newspapers statewide and online. Spud is also a founding member of Swine Palace, Baton Rouge’s premier professional repertory theatre company. It was there he starred as Ignatius J. Reilly in a stage-adapted version of “A Confederacy of Dunces,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and quintessential study of New Orleans’ characters. His performance and the character hold some immortality as a life-size bronze statue placed on Canal Street, under the clock in front of the old D.H. Holmes department store between Bourbon and Dauphine. Spud is married to the former Maureen Brennan. “Mo” Brennan is an accomplished performer in her own right, with film, TV and stage credits dating back decades. They have three teenage children with stage and film credits themselves and, as a family, have performed onstage at The Stage Door Canteen as The Von
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Like many other reporters, during his career Bruce Nolan covered politics, police, education and the odd wrinkles of everyday life. In moments of crisis he helped cover tragedies like the Howard Johnson sniper incident, which in 1973 paralyzed downtown New Orleans – as well as virtually all the industrial accidents, major trials, political scandals and devasting weather events that plagued New Orleans and Jefferson Parish in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1988, he helped edit the Picayune’s year-long political coverage of the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries leading to the GOP nominating convention in the Superdome.
Bruce Nolan Times-Picayune Bruce Nolan spent his 41-year journalism career at the Times-Picayune. From 1971 to 2012 he was a reporter, editor, columnist and suburban bureau chief.
At his request, Nolan returned to beat reporting in the mid-1990s and took up coverage of religion in New Orleans. In that capacity, for three years he reported on the effects of the Cathlolic sex abuse scandal here, breaking every major local story during that difficult time. In 2005, he was on the team whose Hurricane Katrina coverage won the Pulitzer prize for breaking news, one of two Pulitzers the Times-Picayune won for its Katrina work. As colleagues in the field produced information under intense hardship, he gathered their work into the historic lead story of Aug. 30, 2005, announcing that New Orleans had been smashed. For the next seven years Nolan reported on the recovery of the city, including the convulsive closing of Catholic churches and parishes that tore deeply at the fabric of the city in the storm’s aftermath. He covered four papal trips in the U.S., Canada and Israel. And in the 2000s, he mapped out the increasing intersection of religion and politics, as well as the effect of deep cultural changes sweeping through communities of faith. Besides having a small share of the Times-Picayune staff’s Pulitzer prize, Nolan was twice the first runnerup as the Religion Newswriters Association’s national reporter of the year. Locally he won regional Associated Press awards in every writing category. Nolan lives in New Orleans with Emily, his wife of 46 years.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Margaret Orr WDSU-TV For more than 35 years, Margaret Orr has been one the most loved and trusted voices in New Orleans. She is currently positioned as the Chief Meteorologist for WDSU-TV.
Margaret Orr began at Channel 6 as a general assignment reporter in 1979. She soon became the cohost of the “Breakfast Edition” with Bill Stanley, and her early assignments including co-hosting WDSU’s “World’s Fair Show” with Alec Gifford in 1984. After decades on the morning show, Orr shifted to nighttime weathercasting duties in 2009. For more than 20 years, she’s also co-hosted the Children’s Hospital Telethon, helping to raise millions of dollars for Children’s Hospital. Orr grew up in New Orleans, where she graduated from Louise S. McGehee High School. She majored in English at Louisiana State University, then completed the Broadcast Meteorology program at Mississippi State University. She worked at WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge, and WCIV-TV in Charleston, South Carolina before coming back home to New Orleans. Orr is a member of both the American Meteorology Society and the National Weather Association. She has Seals of Approval from both. Orr has won first place awards from the Press Club of New Orleans and from the Associated Press. As proof of her continued viability in the market, she’s a nominee tonight for Best Weathercast. Orr is married with three children and a dog named Bleu. Bleu is royalty – he was the King of Barkus. She likes to garden paint, read, swim and bike.
JUDGES
AWARD CATEGORIES
The judges for this year’s competition are a diverse group. They are your peers. They are professionals who gave a lot of their time because they know how important this contest is to the individuals who, likewise, took the time to enter it.
Categories are listed in presentation order:
Florida Press Club
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Digital Media Media Relations / Owned: Websites Media Relations / Owned: Social Media Public Affairs Special Events Community Relations Overall Campaign
Idaho Press Club Los Angeles Press Club Milwaukee Press Club
Press Club of Cleveland Press Club of Southeast Texas San Diego Press Club San FranciscoPeninsula Press Club
Community News Special Section Headline Editorial Illustration / Cartoon Editorial Critical Review Column Layout / Design Cover Best Magazine
Syracuse Press Club
PHOTOGRAPHY
Society of Professional Journalists-Utah Headliners
General News Photo Portrait Feature Photo Multi-Photo Feature Breaking News Videography Documentary Videography Sports Action Videography Photo Essay Video Editing Visual Storytelling General News Videography Feature Videography
Following tonight’s presentation, go online for a complete list of winners and comments from the judges. Visit the Press Club of New Orleans’ website at PressClubNewOrleans.org.
Radio Story Radio Show Sports Blog Sports Feature Sports Column Sports Feature Story Sports Special Sports Show Sportscast
To order a duplicate copy of your first place award, please email the name of the category and honoree’s name to pressclubneworleans@ gmail.com by 5 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2017. Reprints cost $47.80. No names may be added or replaced on awards. No exceptions.
Houston Press Club
Pittsburgh-The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania
RADIO & SPORTS
DIGITAL MEDIA Digital Innovation Email Updates News Blog Lifestyle Blog Best Use of Facebook Best Use of Twitter Best Use of Instagram Special Section News Website
NEWS WRITING Breaking News Business Lifestyle Continuing Coverage Education Medical / Health Environment / Science Crime Government / Political Investigative General News Feature
TELEVISION REPORTING Stations Promotion or Campaign Public Affairs Talk Show Planned Event Documentary Breaking News Business Lifestyle Continuing Coverage Education Medical / Health Environment / Science Crime Government / Political Best Talent Investigative General News Feature Weathercast Best Newscast
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
Print COMMUNITY NEWS - PRINT Danielle Del Sol Preservation in Print Spirits Soar: The Revitalization of Sophie B. Wright School Danielle Garcia nola.com Ben Franklin Elementary students make ‘sweet’ signs for Beignet Fest Loyola Staff nola.com Treme kids learn science, math, music and more from church program
Mike Luckovich New Orleans Magazine The Will Smith Tragedy
COVER - PRINT
Arthur Mead New Orleans Magazine The Man at the Track
Kim Bergeron Slidell Magazine Slidell Magazine Nov. 2016 John Lennon cover
EDITORIAL - PRINT
Romney Caruso, Josh Danzig, Michael Fulkerson Where Y’at Magazine Cover for Where Y’at Magazine
Sean Brennan The Maroon Sanctuary Campuses: Where do we draw the line? Larry Brook Southern Jewish Life A Jewish Take on Easter’s Date Errol Laborde New Orleans Magazine The T-P and The Advocate
Arthur Hardy, David Johnson Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide 2017 Mardi Gras Guide
BEST MAGAZINE - PRINT Sarah George Louisiana Life Magazine
SPECIAL SECTION - PRINT
CRITICAL REVIEW - PRINT
Meg Ferrante, Geovanni Velasquez New Orleans Living Magazine Spirit of Creativity
Will Coviello Gambit Review - The Killing of a Lesbian Bookie
Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Morgan Packard, Sarah Ravits New Orleans Magazine People to Watch
John Klingman New Orleans Magazine Best New Architecture
HEADLINE - PRINT Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans Leslie Snadowsky – Headline Entry #1 Staff The Maroon Chemical Russian Roulette Staff New Orleans Magazine Endymion Makes the Turn
EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION/ CARTOON - PRINT Anna Dobrowolski The Maroon Catfishing for Love
Alex Woodward Gambit Home again: The Cure disintegrates New Orleans to begin U.S. tour
Errol Laborde, Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Morgan Packard New Orleans Magazine Daniel Schumacher, Caitlin Watzke Louisiana Cookin’
Photography
COLUMN - PRINT Errol Laborde New Orleans Magazine Election Night at the Monteleone; The Workers; Two Women in Burkas
GENERAL NEWS PHOTO - STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Kim Singletary Biz New Orleans Film Biz by Kim Singletary
Matthew Hinton New Orleans Advocate Pete Fountain Funeral
Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans Leslie’s List
Matthew Hinton New Orleans Advocate Taser Aimed at Anti-KKK Protestor at David Duke Senate Debate
Sophia Germer New Orleans Advocate Bonnabel Player Kneels
PORTRAIT - STILL PHOTOGRAPHY Joshua Detiege WWL-TV Sheba Turk Portrait Matthew Hinton New Orleans Advocate Two-year-old Tornado Survivor Greg Miles New Orleans Magazine TheBeat
FEATURE PHOTO STILL PHOTOGRAPHY Sophia Germer New Orleans Advocate November Supermoon Matthew Hinton New Orleans Advocate Blurred Runners Matthew Hinton New Orleans Advocate Jam Session
MULTI-PHOTO FEATURE STILL PHOTOGRAPHY Theresa Cassagne, Tiffani Reding Amedeo Renaissance Publishing Enchanted Matthew Hinton New Orleans Advocate Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in U.S. Senate Debate for Louisiana Staff Louisiana Life Magazine Rise and Revel
BREAKING NEWS VIDEOGRAPHY - TV
Dalton Rinehart WDSU-TV Baton Rouge Protest Live Coverage
TJ Pipitone WWL-TV The New Face of Heroin TJ Pipitone WWL-TV Yenni Sexting Investigation
DOCUMENTARY VIDEOGRAPHY - TV Lenny Delbert, Lenny Delbert Jr., Tom Gregory WYES-TV Louisiana Artist Spotlight
Megan Mackel WDSU-TV 360 Devin King Pole Vaulter
Megan Mackel WDSU-TV Steve Gleason: The Journey
Alvin Moore WDSU-TV African American Yoga Studio
VISUAL STORYTELLING - TV
TJ Pipitone WWL-TV Taking a Stand SPORTS ACTION VIDEOGRAPHY - TV Edwin Goode WVUE-TV Saints vs. Raiders
GENERAL NEWS VIDEOGRAPHY - TV
Megan Mackel WDSU-TV Devin King: Olympic Hopeful
Dolly Narhi WDSU-TV Indian Hills Nudist Camp
Adam Ney WWL-TV 6-year-old Basketball Phenom
Jim Pennison WVUE-TV Tornado Victim Flag Returned Dalton Rinehart WDSU-TV Gentilly Home Explosion
PHOTO ESSAY - TV Adam Copus WWL-TV Poet for Hire Tom Gregory, Lenny Delbert WYES-TV Louisiana Artist Spotlight: James Michalopoulos Dave McNamara WVUE-TV Heart of Louisiana: Deadwood
Neil Giurintano WWL-TV Baton Rouge Protests
VIDEO EDITING - TV
Neil Giurintano WWL-TV Senate Debate Protests
Joshua Detiege WWL-TV Fall Harvest Beer Cocktail
FEATURE VIDEOGRAPHY - TV Brian Lukas WWL-TV The Real Wild life of Louisiana Dave McNamara WVUE-TV Heart of Louisiana: GrandPre Dalton Rinehart WDSU-TV Northshore Dog Sledding
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
Digital DIGITAL INNOVATION Clint Durrett WDSU-TV WDSUVR (360-degreevideo) Arthur Hardy, DavidJohnson Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide 2017 Mardi Gras Guide APP Staff Louisiana Cultural Vistas An Ignatian Journey: Mobile Map and Audio Tour of A Confederacy of Dunces
EMAIL UPDATES
Melanie Warner Spencer MyNewOrleans.com Bon Vivant
Mandy Thomas, Caegan Moore, Joshua Detiege WWL-TV 4th Degree Podcast
BEST USE OF FACEBOOK
Tom Wright WVUE-TV Medical Waste
Josh Danzig, Michael Fulkerson, Staff Where Y’at Magazine Where Y’at Magazine Kelly Massicot MyNewOrleans.com New Orleans Bride Facebook Staff WWL-TV The Great Flood of 2016
BEST USE OF TWITTER Kelly Massicot MyNewOrleans.com Biz New Orleans Twitter
Kelly Massicot MyNewOrleans.com MyNewOrleans.com Daily Newsletter
Kelly Massicot MyNewOrleans.com New Orleans Magazine Twitter
Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans Biz New Orleans – Email Updates #1
BEST USE OF INSTAGRAM
Leslie Snadowsky, Kelly Massicot Biz New Orleans Biz New Orleans Daily Emails
NEWS BLOG Errol Laborde MyNewOrleans.com The Editor’s Room
LIFESTYLE BLOG Kim Bergeron RightBrianDiaries.com Right Brain Diaries Kelly Massicot, Melanie Warner Spencer MyNewOrleans.com Let Them Eat Cake
BEST NEWS WEBSITE Gambit Staff bestofneworleans.com Kelly Massicot BizNewOrleans.com Staff wwltv.com
Radio & Sports BEST RADIO STORY
Kelly Massicot MyNewOrleans.com New Orleans Magazine Instagram Mandy Thomas WWL-TV NOLA in Focus Sheba Turk, Caegan Moore, Joshua Detiege WWL-TV The 504
Eve Abrams, Katy Reckdahl WWNO-FM Unprisoned: Stories from the System Poppy Tooker, Staff WWNO-FM Breaking The Bonds Of Silence: Louisiana Eats Tours The Whitney Slavery Museum Tegan Wendland WWNO-FM Sinkholes: A Part Of Daily Life In New Orleans
SPECIAL SECTION - DIGITAL
BEST RADIO SHOW
Richard Campanella Louisiana Cultural Vistas Geographer’s Space Web Series
Laine Kaplan-Levenson WWNO-FM TriPod: New Orleans At 300 Diane Mack WWNO-FM Inside the Arts
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
Poppy Tooker, Staff WWNO-FM Louisiana Eats: To Ignatius With Love — A Culinary Tribute To ‘A Confederacy Of Dunces’
Leslie Spoon WWL-TV Young Basketball Phenom
Public Relations
SPORTS SPECIAL - TV SPORTS BLOG Les East SportsNOLA.com Les East’s Sports Blog WVUE-TV Football, Futbol, Food Chris Price Renaissance Publishing The Pennant Chase
SPORTS FEATURE - PRINT Gabe Garza The Maroon College athletes strive to go pro Thomas Leggett Louisiana Health and Fitness Magazine Disc Golf Hits the Target Tom Planchet WWL-TV Golden Girls: N.O. gymnastics pair among best in the world
SPORTS COLUMN - PRINT Fletcher Mackel WDSU-TV WDSU Sports Columnist Fletcher Mackel Chris Price Biz New Orleans Magazine Sports Biz by Chris Price Chris Price Renaissance Publishing Sports Biz with Chris Price Column
SPORTS FEATURE - TV Fletcher Mackel WDSU-TV Northshore Dog Sledding Travers Mackel WDSU-TV Gleason Puntaversary
Fletcher Mackel, Sharief Ishaq WDSU-TV Kentucky Derby Special Fletcher Mackel, Sharief Ishaq WDSU-TV Saints 50th Anniversary Special Dominic Massa WWL-TV Bless You Boys: 50 Years
SPORTS SHOW - TV Fox8Sports WVUE-TV Jim Henderson’s Black and Gold Review Doug Mouton, Danny Rockwell WWL-TV 4th Down on 4 Danny Rockwell, Leslie Spoon, Lyons Yellin WWL-TV 4th Down Friday
SPORTSCAST - TV Sharief Ishaq, Fletcher Mackel WDSU-TV Tigers Hope to Open Their Season in a Gouda Way (in Wisconsin)
DIGITAL MEDIA - PR Amy Barrios Multimedia Solutions Palmisano: Building to Have an Enduring Impact Betsie Gambel Gambel Communications 2045: The Gulf Restored Mary Mouton, Jake Springfield Mouton Media By Water Institute at Tulane University
MEDIA RELATIONS/ OWNED: WEBSITES - PR Buisson Creative Staff Buisson Creative Uncle Sam Jamin’ Lafreniere Park Deveney Staff DEVENEY DEVENEY Website Karen Hales, Melissa Izor NeurologySolutions.com Patient Empowerment Preparing for Your Neurologist Appointment
MEDIA RELATIONS / OWNED: SOCIA MEDIA - PR
DougMouton, DannyRockwell WWL-TV Doug Mouton Sports cast
Buisson Creative Staff Buisson Creative Cold off the Press
WVUESports WVUE-TV Fox 8 Sports at 5 pm
Angela Daviston St. Tammany Parish Schools Telling the STPPS Story Through Social Media Deveney Staff DEVENEY Bayou Rum Social Media
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
PUBLIC AFFAIRS - PR Amy Barrios Multimedia Solution Put Public Safety First: Vote Yes For Police & Fire Buisson Creative Staff Buisson Creative Ben Zahn Mayor of Kenner
Carolyn Mayo, Larry Lovell Peter A. Mayer Public Relations Louisiana Children’s Museum Takes it Outside
NEWS WRITING
SPECIAL EVENTS - PR Buisson Creative Staff Buisson Creative Family Gras
BREAKING NEWS NEWS WRITING
Kacey Hill, Margaret Tuskey Peter A. Mayer Public Relations Zatarain’s Pardoning of the Crawfish
Ken Daley Nola.com Cardell Hayes guilty of manslaughter in Will Smith killing
Margaret Tuskey Peter A. Mayer Public Relations National Oysters Rockefeller Day
NickReimann The Maroon Chaos erupts as David Duke debates at Dillard
COMMUNITY RELATIONS - PR
Staff The New Orleans Advocate A tragedy: Joe McKnight, local football legend looking to resurrect career, gunned down in Terrytown street
Buisson Creative Staff Buisson Creative Brother Martin: How to Make a Life Buisson Creative Staff Buisson Creative Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Annual Report Deveney Staff DEVENEY Dyno Nobel Waggaman Plant Opening
BUSINESS - NEWS WRITING Rebecca Friedman Biz New Orleans Magazine Steeped in Tradition KimSingletary Biz New Orleans Magazine Cut the Cord Mark Spencer Biz New Orleans Magazine Tippling Point
OVERALL CAMPAIGN - PR Deveney Staff DEVENEY Emeril’s Meril Restaurant Opens with a BAM! Betsie Gambel Gambel Communications Beignet Fest 2016
LIFESTYLE - NEWS WRITING Chere Coen New Orleans Magazine More Than a Gulf Courtney McDuffduQuesnay, Jim Bathie Louisiana Cookin’ Passover in New Orleans
Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans How Much Did You Spend On Your Mardi Gras Costume?
CONTINUING COVERAGE NEWS WRITING Marta Jewson TheLensNOLA ReNEW Schools special education Charles Maldonado TheLensNOLA Deputy sheriff supplemental pay Staff The New Orleans Advocate Will Smith’s Killing and Cardell Hayes’ trial
EDUCATION - NEWS WRITING Danielle Dreilinger The Times-Picayune New Orleans’ Katrina school takeover to end, Legislature decides Meg Ferrante New Orleans Living Magazine Ben Kleban: Paving the Road to Success Dawn Wilson New Orleans Magazine The Struggle for Education
MEDICAL/HEALTH NEWS WRITING Jed Lipinski nola.com Life on and after opioids: One woman’s journey Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans A Rare Trait Leads Belle Chasse Family To Fund A Cure For AGU, Save Their Sons
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
Richard Webster The Times-Picayune LEAD ASTRAY: Public housing residents question split of $67 million lead poisoning settlement
ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE NEWS WRITING Bob Marshall TheLensNOLA Urban water management Bob Marshall TheLensNOLA Coastal Restoration Katy Reckdahl The Weather Channel Online The Spillway
CRIME - NEWS WRITING Ken Daley nola.com Cardell Hayes guilty of manslaughter in Will Smith killing Jed Lipinski nola.com Cash, sex, and pills: The life of a Metairie doctor accused of threatening feds Richard Webster, Jonathan Bullington The Times-Picayune The bloodiest year: Looking back at 1994
INVESTIGATIVE - NEWS WRITING Jonathan Bullington, Richard Webster The Times-Picayune The Gun Pipeline Marta Jewson TheLensNOLA Lusher open meetings violations
Clancy DuBos Gambit Louisiana’s hangover: Facing the fiscal mess Della Hasselle Gambit Louisiana conservatives rethinking the death penalty Katy Reckdahl Next City How Voting Laws Squelch Urban America’s Voice
STATION PROMOTION OF CAMPAIGHN - TV
Charles Maldonado TheLensNOLA Tax payer-subsidized Airbnb rentals
Erin Finnegan, Stephen Burke WDSU-TV Margaret Orr: She Gets it’ Campaign
GENERAL NEWS NEWS WRITING
Tom Gregory, Marcia Kavanaugh, Beth Utterback WYES-TV New Orleans Tricentennial Moments
Ken Daley nola.com Orleans DA says attorney John Fuller engaged in witness tampering; feds probing, Fuller denies Helen Freund Gambit Waiting for change: More than 10, 000 people in New Orleans rely on tips to make a living. Is it time to change the way servers are compensated? Alex Woodward Gambit Protesters hit with pepper spray at Dillard as David Duke enters Senate debate
FEATURE - NEWS WRITING GOVERNMENT/POLITICAL NEWS WRITING
Television
Jed Lipinski nola.com Shucker for a day: Oysters, immigrants and an aching back Kat Stromquist Gambit Androids and anime: a day at MechaCon Alex Woodward Gambit Sidney Torres: The Cleaner
Candace Harralson WWL-TV August 2016 Flood POP
PUBLIC AFFAIRS - TV David Bernard, Robert Brennan, Staff WVUE-TV Weathering the Storm Staff WDSU-TV Get Ready Now Lee Zurik, Tom Wright, Nancy Decorte WVUE-TV Degree of Debt
TALK SHOW - TV Errol Laborde Marcia Kavanaugh, Staff WYES-TV Informed Sources: Rare Tornadoes, A Blast of Criticism for the Former Governor and a Not-So-Retiring Weathercaster Retires
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
Errol Laborde, Marcia Kavanaugh, Staff WYES-TV Informed Sources: Sinkholes, Street Violence a Subsiding Coast and a Growing Slate of US Senate Candidates Sheba Turk, Caegan Moore, Joshua Detiege WWL-TV The 504
PLANNED EVENT - TV Marcia Kavanaugh, Tom Gregory WYES-TV Remember Pearl Harbor MarcyO’Leary WDSU-TV Mardi Gras Coverage Staff WDSU-TV 2016 Louisiana Gubernatorial Inauguration
DOCUMENTARY - TV Janet Gross, Jim Dotson, Ron Yager WLAE-TV A Legacy of Love: Henriette Delille and the Sisters of the Holy Family Scott Walker WDSU-TV Steve Gleason: The Journey Lee Zurk, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Jindal Effect
BREAKING NEWS - TV REPORTING Meg Gatto WVUE-TV 18 wheeler crashes on interstate
Staff WDSU-TV Canal Street Fire Staff WVUE-TV Convent/Reserve Tornadoes
BUSINESS - TV REPORTING Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans WWL-TV/WUPL-TV Biz-Cast#1 GrantYenni Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Public Schools Future Focus Camp Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Economic Incentives
LIFESTYLE - TV REPORTING Meg Gatto WVUE-TV Music Lessons Tom Gregory WLAE-TV Liz’s Where Y’at Diner is Where Y’eat Fletcher Mackel WDSU-TV Green Envy
CONTINUING COVERAGE - TV Shelley Brown, Rob Masson, Meg Gatto WVUE-TV Home Squatters Katie Moore WWL-TV St. Joseph Water Problems Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Police Double Billing
EDUCATION - TV REPORTING Melody Menard Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Schools 2029 Graduates Rhett Sharpe Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Schools Lee Road Science Day Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Pay to Play
MEDICAL/HEALTH TV REPORTING Marcia Kavanaugh, Paula Pendarvis, Tom Gregory WYES-TV Creating Healthy Communities Thanh Truong WWL-TV ALS Support Group Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Prescription for Profit
ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE - TV REPORTING Heath Allen WDSU-TV Brown Water Plaguing Residents in Ponchatoula David Hammer WWL-TV Oil & Water John Snell WVUE-TV Coast in Crisis
CRIME - TV REPORTING Eric Paulsen WWL-TV Taking a Stand
SPECIAL AWARDS
PRESS CLUB AWARD FINALISTS
Natasha Robin WVUE-TV Bourbon Murder Victim
Katie Moore WWL-TV Cajun Navy
Natasha Robin WVUE-TV Crime tracker: Young Guns
Ryan Naquin WVUE-TV Air of Uncertainty
GOVERNMENTAL/POLITICAL TV REPORTING
FEATURE - TV REPORTING
Travers Mackel WDSU-TV Municipal Court Safety Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Convention Center Money Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Yenni Texting Scandal
Tom Gregory WLAE-TV God’s Honey Dave McNamara WVUE-TV Heart of Louisiana: GranPre Natasha Robin WVUE-TV Like Father, LikeSon
BEST WEATHERCAST - TV BEST TALENT - TV
Shelby Latino WVUE-TV
Tom Gregory WYES-WLAE
Kweilyn Murphy WDSU-TV
Travers Mackel WDSU-TV
Margaret Orr WDSU-TV
Gina Swanson WDSU-TV
Bill Rainey Memorial Award Honoring the first-place winner in print breaking news reporting
Ashton Phelps Sr. Memorial Award Honoring the first-place winner in editorial writing
Alex Waller Memorial Award Honoring the best of firstplace winners in print writing
Jim Metcalf Memorial Award Honoring the best of firstplace winners in broadcast writing
Hal Ledet Print Photography Award Honoring the best of first-place winners in still photography
BEST WEATHERCAST - TV INVESTIGATIVE - TV REPORTING David Hammer WWL-TV Yenni Sexting Investigation Travers Mackel WDSU-TV Ticket Turmoil Lee Zurik, Tom Wright WVUE-TV Medical Waste
Jaune Jackson WDSU-TV Alton Sterling Shooting Newscast Vanessa Johnson WDSU-TV Joe McKnight Incident Dannah Sauer, Rhonda Grzych, Staff WVUE-TV Fox 8 News at 10 pm
President’s Television Photography Award Honoring the best of firstplace winners in television photography
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS Deja Dennis Xavier University of Louisiana, Journalism Major Sarah Gamard Louisiana State University, Journalism Major
GENERAL NEWS - TV REPORTING Heath Allen WDSU-TV Indian Hills Nudist Camp