Press Club Awards Program 2018

60th annual excellence in journalism awards gal a S at u r d ay, j u ly 21, 2 018 The Jung Hotel

order of ceremony

Welcome Doug Mouton WWL-TV

Incoming President’s Remarks Melanie Warner Spencer

Renaissance Publishing

Master of Ceremonies

Billy Slaughter

Special Presentation Councilmember Helena Moreno

Lifetime Achievement Recipient Clancy DuBos

Gambit Weekly Lifetime Achievement Recipient

Presentation of Scholarships

Silver Scribe Announcement

Special Awards Presentation

Renette Dejoie-Hall The Louisiana Weekly

A Word From Our President

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elcome to the 60th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards Gala.

Tonight, we celebrate 60 years of the Press Club of New Orleans. Since 1957, journalists and public relations professionals in the city have come together in the spirit of fellowship. We sincerely thank you for being here tonight. Your participation is what makes the Press Club work.

This evening is my final night as the President of the Press Club of New Orleans. I’m happy to say, I leave behind an organization that has never been healthier or more vibrant.

The PCNO is on sound financial footing, and tonight, for the first time ever, we’ll hand out three $2,500 college scholarships. As soon as next year, we expect to increase those even more. Our revamped Silver Scribe competition, which now includes multiple seminars for prospective young journalists, is a growing success. Plus, these Press Club Awards have never been more competitive.

In the last three years, we’ve had more total entries in the Press Club Awards than at any time in the 60-year history of our organization. If you’re nominated for an award tonight, be proud. The competition was strong in every category.

In addition to handing out awards tonight, we’ll honor two amazing journalists with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Renette Dejoie-Hall and Clancy DuBos. Renette and Clancy embody everything we try to be as journalists; they were easy, unanimous votes by the Press Club Board.

After tonight, I turn the reigns over to Melanie Spencer of Renaissance Publishing. I have no doubt she will do a great job leading the Press Club forward. David Baker and the rest of the Press Club Board are unbelievably dedicated, hard-working, and just fun to be around.

We hope you feel that spirit tonight. Again, thanks for being here. Enjoy your evening.

Doug Mouton President, Press Club of New Orleans 2016-18

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.

Twice, the National Association of Sportswriters and Sportscasters voted Doug Louisiana’s Sportscaster of the Year. 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.

about us

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n 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 300-plus 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. b Oa r d o f D i r e c t o r s , 2 017-18 OFFICERS

P u b l i c R e l at i o n s

Doug Mouton President WWL-TV

Amy Barrios Multimedia Solutions

Kevin Mumphrey Past President St. Tammany Parish Melanie Spencer 1st Vice President Renaissance Publishing Mona Duffel Jones 2nd Vice President Duffel & Associates Media David Thaddeus Baker The Louisiana Weekly

Greg Buisson Buisson Creative Brittany Cruickshank DEVENEY Kristian Sonnier New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau E d u c at i o n R e p r e s e n tat i v e Laura Jayne Loyola University

PA ST P RESIDENTS 2016-2018 Doug Mouton 2013-2016 Kevin Mumphrey 2010-2013 Christian Moises 2008-2010 Greg Shepperd 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 1989-1990 Kit Gorman 1988-1989 Bob Pavlovich 1986-1988 Warren Bell 1985-1986 Randy Callendar 1984-1985 Larry Lorenz 1983-1984 Joe Puglia 1982-1983 Clancy DuBos 1980-1982 Tom Bell 1979-1980 Hal Ledet 1977-1979 Ed Anderson 1976-1977 Guy King 1975-1976 Arnold Porsch 1973-1975 Clarence Doucet 1972-1973 Fritz Harsdorff 1970-1972 Jack Dempsey 1968-1970 Mike Lala 1967-1968 Bill Madden 1966-1967 Del Hall

Chris Finch Fox 8

1965-1966 Fritz Harsdorff

Gina Swanson WDSU-TV

1963-1964 Jerry Romig

1964-1965 Emile Comar 1962-1963 Howard Jacobs 1961-1962 Bob Roesler

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1960-1961 Alex Waller 1959-1960 Bill Madden 1958-1959 Emile Comar 1957-1958 Gabriel Gelb

master of ceremony

B i l ly S l au g h t er Pa n ta R e i P r o d u c t i o n s

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illy Slaughter has performed in over 90 feature films and television series, including: The Magnificent 7, The Campaign, The Big Short, Bad Moms, Daddy’s Home, and American Horror Story; and has starred in films such as 4 To Go and Laundry Day. He additionally starred in and Executive Produced Dark Meridian, which won “Action Film of the Year” at the 2017 Action on Film Festival, and for which he received a nomination for “Best Actor.” Slaughter has worked with numerous industry icons from Denzel Washington, Anthony Hopkins, Robert DeNiro and Gene Hackman to Tom Cruise, Will Ferrell, Will Smith, Mark Wahlberg, and Sylvester Stallone.

A New Orleans native, Billy is considered one of the top actors to come out of “Hollywood South” and was brought to Los Angeles at the invite of Dustin Hoffman. Since he began acting, Billy was recognized for being an outstanding young talent. He was the youngest “Lead Actor” recipient of The Marquee Award for his role in Equus, the youngest acting instructor in New Orleans, and one of the youngest company members of Louisiana’s Shakespeare Festival.

He has been on the cover of Biz Magazine, featured in The Times Picayune’s ‘Best of New Orleans’ edition, and listed as one of Gambit Magazine’s top young movers and shakers.

Slaughter trained classically in England at The British American Dramatic Academy (BADA) and has lived and worked in New York and L.A. He holds a B.A. in Drama and Communications from the University of New Orleans, where he graduated #1 in the Drama program (Cum Laude), and was offered a personal scholarship to The Strasberg Institute by Anna Strasberg. Currently, Billy is working on new series with Disney/Marvel, Hulu, and Blumhouse and has a slate of projects in development under his company Panta Rei Productions.

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Cl a n c y D u B o s Gambit

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lancy DuBos is the political editor of Gambit. He began his journalism career in May 1973 as a teenager at The Times-Picayune and has worked for decades in New Orleans print and television media. He served as a political analyst for WDSU-TV and WVUETV, and has been at WWL-TV for nearly 11 years. He served as president of the Press Club of New Orleans and as president of the Gridiron Club in the 1980s.

Clancy and his wife Margo bought Gambit in 1991 and built it into one of the country’s most well-respected alt-weekly papers, employing dozens of New Orleans journalists over the years. He has won awards for his work from the Louisiana Press Association, the Association of A lternative Newsweeklies and the Associated Press Association of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Earlier this year, the DuBoses sold Gambit to Georges Media Group, but he continues to write his weekly “Politics” column for the paper, and his “Clancy’s Commentary” runs on WWL-TV every Tuesday night.

A proud graduate of Holy Cross High School, UNO and Loyola Law School, Clancy was instrumental in getting Holy Cross rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. In his spare time, Clancy enjoys hunting, fishing and spending time with Margo and their sons, Brandin and Will.

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Ren e t t e D ej o i e-H a l l P r e s i d e n t & P u b l i s h e r | T h e L o u i s i a n a W e e k ly

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s both a native of New Orleans and third-generation publishing professional, Renette Dejoie-Hall has spent her life connecting communities to news that matters to them.

“For me, this is more than just a career, it is my family’s legacy.”

After earning a Bachelors degree from Boston College in 1976, Hall returned to Louisiana and to The Louisiana Weekly – a weekly newspaper founded by her grandfather (Constant Charles Dejoie Sr.) during the post-World War I Era in 1925 as a portal through which African Americans could express and share news important to their communities, and as a means to combat racial injustice in New Orleans and beyond.

She started her career with the paper as a newspaper girl with a weekly route at the age of 8. She’s also been an office clerk, typesetter, darkroom developer, graphic designer, layout designer and salesperson. She explored other industries, subsequently beginning a career in radio where she worked as a sales professional for a Black-owned radio conglomerat.

Hall eventually returned to the family business in 1997.

Today, she is the paper’s president and publisher.

She has been a member of the Louisiana Press Association (LPA) board since 2008 and has served on its Executive Committee for the past four years.

Hall is also a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), National Newspaper Association (NNA), Louisiana Black Publishers Association (LPBA) and the Associated Press. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at WYES New Orleans and the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African-American Material Culture in addition to being a donor to several charitable organizations and working with not-for-profit organizations and initiatives to assist with community rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans.

More than 90 years after its inception, Hall continues to build on her family’s legacy. Her efforts have earned her numerous honors from the New Orleans Association of Black Journalists, the National Rainbow/ PUSH organization, CityBusiness The Childhood Family and Learning Foundation and the LPA. The front-page stories of the paper have been recognized by peer publications such as The Bay State Banner in Boston – all of which are reflections of a commitment to continue serving the New Orleans Metro Area as well as state, national and international readers by bringing them stories of interest and concern to Blacks and minority communities around the globe.

She was married to James C. Hall for 36 years until his untimely death in 2016. She is a mother of three: Brandon and Christopher, who represent the fourth generation of the family at The Louisiana Weekly; and Lauren. She is also the grandmother of Carter, Austin and Sydney.

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Cat e g o r i e s a r e l i s t e d i n p r e s e n tat i o n o r d e r : 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. Reprints cost $47.80. No names may be added or replaced on awards. No exceptions.

Print / General News Reporting Print / Best Critical Review Print / Best Layout - Design Print / Medical - Health Reporting Television / Medical - Health Reporting Television / Crime Reporting Television / Breaking News Reporting Television / Continuing Coverage Still Photography / Best Portrait Still Photography / Best Feature Photo Digital / Best Use of Twitter Digital / Digital Innovation Digital / Best Social Video Digital / Best News Website Television / Best Documentary Television / Governmental - Political Reporting Television / Best Talk Show Television / Lifestyle Reporting Television / Best Station Promotion TV Photography / General News Videography TV Photography / Best Photo Essay Print / Best Editorial Illustration Print / Best Sports Column Print / Lifestyle Reporting Print / Community News Public Relations / Community Relations Public Relations / Overall Campaign Digital / News Blog Digital / Lifestyle Blog Digital / Best Use of Instagram Television / Business Reporting Television / Best On-Air Talent Television / Best Planned Event Television / Best Promotional Campaign Radio / Best Radio Story Radio / Best Radio Show Print / Best Sports Feature Print / Governmental - Political Reporting Print / Breaking News Reporting

Print / Best Magazine Public Relations / Social Media Public Relations / Special Events Print / Best Headline Print / Environmental - Science Reporting Print / Continuing Coverage Print / Best Column TV Photography / Sports Videography TV Photography / Breaking News Videography Television / General News Reporting Television / Best Sportscast Television / Education Reporting Television / Feature Reporting Still Photography / Best Multi-Feature Photo Still Photography / Best News Photo Television / Best Sports Special Television / Environmental – Science Reporting Television / Best Sports Feature Television / Best Weathercast TV Photography / Best Visual Storytelling TV Photography / Best Video Editing TV Photography / Feature Videography Print / Business Reporting Print / Education Reporting Print / Best Cover Print / Best Editorial Print / Investigative Reporting Print / Special Section Print / Feature Reporting Digital / Best Social Media Campaign Digital / Special Section Digital / Sports Blog Digital /Best Use of Facebook Public Relations / Digital Media Public Relations / Public Affairs Television / Best Public Affairs Television / Best Sports Show Television / Investigative Reporting Television / Best Newscast

judges

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he 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.

Florida Press Club

Press Club Of Cleveland

Houston Press Club

Press Club Of Southeast Texas

Idaho Press Club

San Diego Press Club

Los Angeles Press Club

San Francisco-Peninsula Press Club

Milwaukee Press Club

Syracuse Press Club

Pittsburgh-The Press Club Of Western Pennsylvania

Society Of Professional Journalists-Utah Headliners

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.

p r e s s c l u b awa r d f i n a l i s t s

Print / Gener al News Reporting

Television / Crime Reporting

Charles Maldonado, Emily Peck / The Lens How AirBNB is Pushing Locals Out of New Orleans Coolest Neighborhoods

Meg Gatto / WVUE-TV Crimestoppers

Katy Reckdahl / The Lens Louis Gibson and 300 Juvenile Lifers Could Get Parole Hearings if Lawmakers Agree on a Bill Kat Stromquist / Gambit Shift Change: How New Orleans Hospitality Industry Workers are Organizing Their Industry Print / Best Critical Review

Dominic Massa / WWL-TV New Book on Makin’ Groceries and History, Schwegmann-Style Alan Smason / Crescent City Jewish News Timm, Fitzpatrick Play Leopold and Loeb in ‘Thrill Me’ Alex Woodward / Gambit You Still Believe in Me: Brian Wilson’s Goodbye to Pet Sounds Print / Best Layout - Design

Sarah George / Louisiana Life Oh Shucks!

David Johnson, Stephen Hales / Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide A Day in the Life of Rex Tiffani Reding Amedeo / New Orleans Magazine Oysters Print / Medical - He alth Reporting

Susan Buchanan / The Louisiana Weekly GOP-Backed Health Bill Could Put Louisiana Residents at Risk Katy Reckdahl / New Orleans Advocate Iggy and the Tumblers: New Orleans Boy Facing Genetic Disorder Brings Joy to the Music Alan Smason / Crescent City Jewish News Better than Chicken Soup: Medicine and Charity in the Big Easy Television / Medical - He alth Reporting

Meg Farris / WWL-TV Tragedy Leads Man to New Mission

Karen Swensen / WWL-TV Algiers Point Rape Case Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Independence Mayor Indicted Television / Bre aking News Reporting

Rob Krieger / WVUE-TV Endymion Parade Crash Travers Mackel / WDSU-TV New Orleans East Tornadoes WVUE-TV News Staff / WVUE-TV February 7th Tornado Television / Continuing Cover age

Travers Mackel, Andrew McCallister / WDSU-TV Congressman Shot Katie Moore / WWL-TV Down the Drain Lee Zurik, Tom Wright, Nancy Decorte / WVUE-TV Cracking the Code Still Photogr aphy / Best Portr ait

Greg Miles / New Orleans Magazine The Beat: Bragg Greg Miles / New Orleans Magazine The Beat: Geroux WWOZ Staff, Ryan Hodgson-Rigsby / WWOZ-FM 9th Ward Black Hatchets Mardi Gras Indians Still Photogr aphy / Best Fe ature Photo

Sophia Germer / New Orleans Advocate Riverside Academy Scores on Country Day David Grunfeld / Nola.com Heading to the Stables on a Foggy New Orleans Night Matthew Hinton / New Orleans Advocate Flipping on the Fourth Digital / Best Use of Twit ter

Aubry Killion / WDSU-TV Slidell Child Killed in Accident Gives Life to Others

Kelly Massicot / New Orleans Magazine New Orleans Magazine Twitter

Randi Rousseau / WDSU-TV Christmas Blessing

Doug Mouton, Adam Ney / WWL-TV 4th Down Friday on Twitter

Staff / WWL-TV New Orleans East Tornado

Sheba Turk, Caegan Moore, Josh Detiege / WWL-TV The 504: NOLA Mayoral Debate

Digital / Digital Innovation

WWOZ Staff, Bent Media Staff, Ponderosa Stomp Foundation Staff / WWOZ-FM A Closer Walk: Interactive New Orleans Music History Map

Television / Lifest yle Reporting

Kim Holden / WVUE-TV Storyville Jazz Band

Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Cracking the Code: Health Care Price Check

Dave McNamara / WVUE-TV Heart of Louisiana: Blue Moon Cajun Jam Sessions

Digital / Best Social Video

Liz Reyes / WVUE-TV Canvas of Controversy

Owen Hornstein III / WDSU-TV Bee Yourself Owen Hornstein III / WDSU-TV WDSU Video Game Jenn Thrasher, WVUE Marketing Staff / WVUE-TV Alexa Weather App Digital / Best News Website

Josh Danzig, Michael Fulkerson / WhereYat.com Where Y’at Magazine

Television / Best Station Promotion

Candace Harralson, LeKeith Holmes / WWL-TV Getting to Know Thanh David Jones / WYES-TV WYES 60th Anniversary WVUE Marketing Staff / WVUE-TV David Bernard Alexa Flash Briefing TV Photogr aphy / Gener al News Videogr aphy

Kelly Massicot / Biz New Orleans Renaissance Publishing

Brian Lukas / WWL-TV Room for One More

Staff / Gambit: Best of New Orleans Gambit

Jim Pennison / WVUE-TV Canvas of Controversy

Television / Best Documentary

Derek Waldrip / WWL-TV Rape Victim Shares Story

Jennifer Crockett, Katy Reckdahl / WDSU-TV A Space on the Canvas David Hammer, Katie Moore, Mike Perlstein / WWL-TV Down the Drain Peggy Scott Laborde, Larry Roussarie / WYES-TV New Orleans: The First 300 Years Television / Governmental - Political Reporting

Travers Mackel / WDSU-TV Cantrell Credit Card Spending Questions Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Political Appointee Resigns

TV Photogr aphy / Best Photo Essay

Mark Chapman / WDSU-TV Elmer’s Island Brian Lukas / WWL-TV Showing Our Appreciation Derek Waldrip / WWL-TV Katrina Can’t Stop the Music Print / Best Editorial Illustr ation

Ron Domingue, Michael Fulkerson, Josh Danzig / Where Y’at Magazine Saints Head Coach Sean Payton on the Iron Throne

Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Taxpayer Money Misspent

David Johnson, Arthur Hardy / Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide 2018 Mardi Gras Guide Cover

Television / Best Talk Show

Arthur Nead / New Orleans Magazine How Dixie Got its 45

Peggy Scott Laborde / WYES-TV Steppin’ Out Sheba Turk, Caegan Moore, Josh Detiege / WWL-TV The 504

Print / Best Sports Column

Les East / CrescentCitySports.com Les East’s Saints Column

p r e s s c l u b awa r d f i n a l i s t s Ralph Malbrough / WWL-TV Forecast Chris Price / Biz New Orleans Magazine Biz Sports Column Print / Lifest yle Reporting

Jyl Benson / New Orleans Magazine Oysters: In Search of the Best from the Shells Chris Price / New Orleans Magazine Blade Runners Katy Reckdahl / Shelterforce Keeping Your Artists Close to Home Print / Communit y News

Barbara Brown / Loyola Student News Service Mandeville High School Prom King with Spina Bifida Lights up School with Joy Danielle Del Sol / Preservation in Print Heaven Scent Danielle Del Sol / Preservation in Print The Triumphant Return of the Pythian Public Rel ations / Communit y Rel ations

Amy Barrios / Multimedia Solutions A Great Place to Start: The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office

Digital / Lifest yle Blog

Kelly Massicot, Melanie Spencer / New Orleans Bride Let Them Eat Cake Robert Peyton / MyNewOrleans.com Haute Places WWOZ Staff, WWOZ Volunteers / WWOZ-FM Show Host Blog Digital / Best Use of Instagr am

Staff / Louisiana Life Louisiana Life Instagram Staff / Renaissance Publishing Acadiana Profile Instagram Sheba Turk, Caegan Moore, Josh Detiege / WWL-TV The 504: Behind the Scenes & Bloopers Television / Business Reporting

Sula Kim / WDSU-TV TED Women Jacqueline Quynh / WWL-TV National Art and Hobby Shuts its Doors after 86 Years Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Hooked Up Television / Best On-Air Talent

Amy Barrios / Multimedia Solutions TV News Legends Turn to Newspapers for News

Meg Gatto WVUE-TV

Buisson Creative Team / Buisson Creative Gulf Coast Bank’s 2016 Annual Report

Travers Mackel WDSU-TV

Public Rel ations / Over all Campaign

Buisson Creative Team / Buisson Creative VoicePAC DEVENEY / DEVENEY Bayou Rum 2017 Campaign

Juliana Mazza WDSU-TV Television / Best Pl anned Event

Greg Buisson, Jim Dotson, Ron Yager / WLAE-TV The People’s Debate for Mayor of New Orleans

Larry Lovell, Greg Bensel / Peter A. Mayer Public Relations Dixie Beer Reborn 2017

Peggy Scott Laborde, Jim Moriarty, Barbara Sillery / WYES-TV 2017 Rex Ball and Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus

Digital / News Blog

Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Campaign 2017 Election Coverage

Errol Laborde / MyNewOrleans.com The Editor’s Room Jennifer Schecter / Renaissance Publishing Tourism Biz Leslie Snadowsky / Biz New Orleans Leslie’s List

Television / Best Promotional Campaign

Jeff Brenner, Tom Gregory, Chris Jackson / Cox Sports CST 15

p r e s s c l u b awa r d f i n a l i s t s

Matt Davis, Staff / WVUE-TV Off the Books Sweeps Promotion Timme Mackie, Candace Harralson / WWL-TV Searching for Ramona Brown Radio / Best Radio Story

Travis Lux, Laine Kaplan-Levenson / WWNO-FM NOLA vs. Nature: The Other Biggest Flood in New Orleans History Radio / Best Radio Show

Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Errol Laborde, Ashley McLellan / New Orleans Magazine Oysters Daniel Schumacher, Caitlin Watzke / Louisiana Cookin’ 2017 Holiday Issue Public Rel ations / Social Media

Amy Barrios / Multimedia Solutions St. Pius X Catholic School

Diane Mack / WWNO-FM Inside the Arts: Audra McDonald Sings, Dividing the Estate, Carmina Burana

Gambel Communications / Gambel Communications Children’s Hospital Jazz Half Marathon & 5K

Janae Pierre / WWNO-FM All Things New Orleans

Chris Yandle, Angela Daviston / St. Tammany Parish Schools Celebrating Black History

Poppy Tooker, Staff / WWNO-FM Louisiana Eats: Stories from the Back of the House Print / Best Sports Fe ature

Les East / CrescentCitySports.com Willie Snead IV Proud of his Family Name Les East / SaturdayDownSouth.com LSU Coach Ed Orgeron Begins His Dream Job Brian Wollitz / Loyola Student News Service St. Augustine, De La Salle Brace for First High School Game at Tulane’s Yulman Stadium Print / Governmental Political Reporting

Charles Maldonado / The Lens New Orleans is Installing More Traffic Cameras, but We Don’t Know if They Make Our Streets Safer Charles Maldonado, Marta Jewson / The Lens Lake Forest Charter School Member Resigned after $120,000 Deal with School

Public Rel ations / Special Events

Buisson Creative Team / Buisson Creative VoicePAC: The People’s Debate Christina del Canto, Margaret Tuskey / Peter A. Mayer Public Relations Luna Fete Tricentennial Event Margaret Tuskey / Peter A. Mayer Public Relations Sterling’s 50th Anniversary at Antoine’s Restaurant Print / Best He adline

Leslie T. Snadowsky / Biz New Orleans Local Brewer Makes Craft Beer ‘Great Again’ at Presidential Inauguration (+2) Leslie T. Snadowsky / Biz New Orleans Antiques King Rau of New Orleans Ready for a Royal Expansion (+2) Staff / New Orleans Magazine Brunches by the Bunches (+2)

Print / Bre aking News Reporting

Danny Monteverde / WWL-TV Scalise to Undergo Additional Procedures after Severe Bleeding Alan Smason / Crescent City Jewish News New Orleans Community Mobilizes for Houston as Harvey Bears Down on LA Print / Best Maga zine

Josh Danzig, Michael Fulkerson / Where Y’at Magazine Where Y’at Magazine

Print / Environmental Science Reporting

Helen Freund / The Lens New Orleans Chefs Join the Fight to Rebuild Louisiana’s Coast Katy Reckdahl / Louisiana Cultural Vistas Channeling the Master Plan Katy Reckdahl / The Lens A Vital Port for the Nation’s Oil and Gas Industry Is on Its Way to Becoming an Island

p r e s s c l u b awa r d f i n a l i s t s Print / Continuing Cover age

Television / Education Reporting

Della Hasselle / The New Orleans Advocate Continuing Coverage of Chemical Explosion in St. John the Baptist Parish

Kim Holden / WVUE - TV Squandered Schooling

Marta Jewson / The Lens Charter School Accountability Alex Woodward / Gambit Immigration in New Orleans Under the Trump Administration

Randi Rousseau / WDSU-TV Flexible Classrooms Rhett Sharpe / Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Public Schools Solar Eclipse Television / Fe ature Reporting

Print / Best Column

John S. Case / Slidell Magazine The Storyteller Jed Horne / The Lens Jed Horne Caitlin Watzke / Louisiana Cookin’ Louisiana Foodways TV Photogr aphy / Sports Videogr aphy

Juliana Mazza / WDSU-TV 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb Dave McNamara / WVUE-TV Heart of Louisiana: Frog Capital of the World Gina Swanson / WDSU-TV Maple Street Bookstore Still Photogr aphy / Best Multi-Fe ature Photo

Edwin Goode / WVUE-TV Falcons vs Saints

Denny Culbert / New Orleans Magazine Eat. Drink. Enjoy.

Edwin Goode / WVUE-TV Saints vs Packers

Matthew Hinton, Scott Threlkeld, Sophia Germer / New Orleans Advocate Domestic Violence Destroys Three Lives

Dalton Rinehart / WDSU-TV Olympic Hopeful TV Photogr aphy / Bre aking News Videogr aphy

Mark Chapman / WDSU-TV New Orleans East Tornadoes Tammie Mills / WVUE-TV Tornado on Bundy Road Derek Waldrip / WWL-TV Orleans Avenue Flooding Television / Gener al News Reporting

Jennifer Crockett / WDSU-TV Haunted Bourbon Meg Gatto / WVUE-TV Pure Gold Gina Swanson / WDSU-TV Rosie the Riveter Television / Best Sportscast

Fletcher Mackel, Sharief Ishaq WDSU-TV

Staff / Louisiana Life On the Run Still Photogr aphy / Best News Photo

Sophia Germer / The New Orleans Advocate Tornado Plows through New Orleans East David Grunfeld / The Times-Picayune Protesting Robert E. Lee in New Orleans Matthew Hinton / The New Orleans Advocate Deadly Shooting Television / Best Sports Special

Jeff Brenner, Tom Gregory, Chris Jackson / CST CST 15: 15 Years…And Counting Fletcher Mackel, Sharief Ishaq / WDSU-TV Saints on 6 Doug Mouton, Danny Rockwell / WWL-TV Eye on the Tigers: It’s O Time Television / Environmental – Science Reporting

Doug Mouton, Danny Rockwell, Andrew Doak WWL-TV

Meg Farris / WWL-TV Mystery Illness

WVUE Sports Staff WVUE-TV

John Snell / WVUE-TV Black Gold

p r e s s c l u b awa r d f i n a l i s t s Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Left for Dead Television / Best Sports Fe ature

Jennifer Crockett / WDSU-TV Eastbank Little League Randi Rousseau / WDSU-TV Teen Crossfit Grant Yenni / Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Public Schools Heart of a Lion Television / Best We athercast

Daniel Graves WDSU-TV

Leslie Snadowsky / Biz New Orleans Big Sky Ranch’s ‘Seniors for Seniors’ Program Catnip for the Soul Print / Education Reporting

Marta Jewson / The Lens State Ratings for New Orleans Schools are on a Three Year Slide Katy Reckdahl / Hechinger Report Charter Schools Aren’t Measuring up to Their Promise Katy Reckdahl / Hechinger Report A New Movement to Treat Troubled Children as “Sad, Not Bad” Print / Best Cover

Bruce Katz WVUE-TV

Sarah George / Louisiana Life Culinary Heritage

Nicondra Norwood WVUE-TV

Tiffani Reding Amedeo / New Orleans Magazine Brunch!

TV Photogr aphy / Best Visual Story telling

Staff / New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles New Build of the Year

TJ Pipitone / WWL-TV Searching for Ramona Brown: The Fire

Print / Best Editorial

John Snell / WVUE-TV Coast in Crisis: Coastal Oddities

Errol Laborde / New Orleans Magazine Speaking Out: It Is Not about Race

Jon Turnipseed / WVUE-TV Hooked Up

Tom Planchet / WWL-TV Dear Houston, Here’s What You Can Expect Next

TV Photogr aphy / Best Video Editing

Nick Reimann / The Maroon Editorial: We Should Welcome a Non-Jesuit President

Tom Gregory / WYES-TV Purchased Lives Jon Turnipseed / WVUE-TV Left for Dead Jon Turnipseed / WVUE-TV State of Unrest TV Photogr aphy / Fe ature Videogr aphy

Print / Investigative Reporting

Marta Jewson / The Lens Plans to Test School Drinking Water for Lead Were Abandoned after Water Board Raised Questions

Mark Chapman / WDSU-TV A Space on the Canvas

Charles Maldonado / The Lens Fake Subpoenas

Brian Lukas / WWL-TV Hobby with a Purpose

Samantha Sunne / The Lens Louisiana DAs Offer Motorists a Deal: Write Us a Check and We’ll Dismiss Your Speeding Ticket

Bryan McCann / WDSU-TV Ebb and Flow Print / Business Reporting

Chris Price / Biz New Orleans Brew New Orleans Chris Price / Biz New Orleans Living the Dream

Print / Special Section

Morgan Packard Griffith, Ali Sullivan / St. Charles Avenue Courts of Carnival Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Kim Singletary, Ashley McLellan / New Orleans Magazine People to Watch

p r e s s c l u b awa r d f i n a l i s t s

Print / Fe ature Reporting

Public Rel ations / Public Affairs

Sally Asher / New Orleans Magazine Last Days of Storyville

Buisson Creative Team / Buisson Creative VoicePAC: A Letter to Mayor Landrieu

Will Coviello / Gambit John Waters Gets Filthy

DEVENEY / DEVENEY DEVENEY Delivers for Florida’s Foo Foo Festival

Katy Reckdahl / Scalawag Magazine The Curious Loss of a Friendly Stranger Digital / Best Social Media Campaign

Mary Staes, Sam Winstrom / WWL-TV 4 Questions Jenn Thrasher, WVUE Marketing Staff / WVUE-TV Fox 8 Weather App Campaign WWOZ Staff / WWOZ-FM Takin’ It to the Streets Digital / Special Section

Kevin Dupuy, Sam Winstrom / WWL-TV Down the Drain Paula Pendarvis, Marcia Kavanaugh / wyes.org Election 2017: New Orleans’ Next Mayor

DEVENEY / DEVENEY IEM Baton Rouge Flood Recovery Television / Best Public Affairs

Marcy O’Leary, Margaret Orr, Megan Mackel / WDSU-TV Get Ready Now Ann Wills, Robert Berning III, Leslie Snadowsky / Community Health Heroes Community Health Heroes – October 2017 Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV Unpaid Taxes = Government Contracts Television / Best Sports Show

Doug Mouton, Danny Rockwell, Adam Ney / WWL-TV 4th Down on 4

Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV State of Unrest

Danny Rockwell, Ricardo LeCompte, Andrew Doak / WWL-TV 4th Down Friday

Digital / Sports Blog

WVUE Sports Staff / WVUE-TV Black & Gold Review: Saints vs. Lions

Sean Fazende / WVUE-TV After Further Review Chris Price / Renaissance Publishing The Pennant Chase Mark Spencer / MyNewOrleans.com Full Sport Press Digital / Best Use of Facebook

Kevin Dupuy / WWL-TV Snow Day Rob Krieger / WVUE-TV Endymion Parade Crash Staff / WWL-TV Confederate Monuments Removed Public Rel ations / Digital Media

Amy Barrios / Multimedia Solutions The Palmisano Culture Buisson Creative Team / Buisson Creative VoicePAC: Accountability Matters Tom Gregory / tGO Productions Shepherding Hope

Television / Investigative Reporting

David Hammer / WWL-TV Irvin Mayfield Indictment Katie Moore / WWL-TV Down the Drain Lee Zurik, Tom Wright / WVUE-TV State of Unrest Television / Best Newscast

Jaune Jackson / WDSU-TV Flood Aftermath Erin Peytral / WVUE-TV Fox 8 News at 4pm Dannah Sauer / WVUE-TV Fox 8 News at 10pm

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past lifetime achievement awards

BILLY RAINEY MEMORIAL AWARD

The Press Club inaugurated its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. Presentation of this award is aimed at honoring individuals who not only have demonstrated the utmost in professionalism throughout their careers but have also made significant contributions to the community in the process.

Honoring the first-place winner in print breaking news reporting ASHTON PHELPS, SR. MEMORIAL AWARD

Honoring the first-place winner in editorial writing HAL LEDET PRINT PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Honoring the best of first-place winners in still photography

1993 Iris Kelso & Wayne Mack 1994 J. Michael Early 1995 Nash Roberts & Bob Roesler

PRESIDENT’S TELEVISION PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Honoring the best of first-place winners in television photography

1996 Walter Greaves Cowan & Alec Gifford 1997 Charles “Pie” Dufour & Phil Johnson 1998 Maury Magill & Dave Snyder 1999 Bill Elder & Betty Guillaud

ALEX WALLER MEMORIAL AWARD

Honoring the best of first-place winners in print writing

2000 Peter Finney & Terry Flettrich Rohe 2001 Angela Hill & Larry Lorenz 2002 Ronnie Virgets & Jack Wardlaw

JIM METCALF MEMORIAL AWARD

2003 Bob and Jan Carr & Buddy Diliberto

Honoring the best of first-place winners in broadcast writing

2004 William M. Metcalf Jr. & Willie P. Wilson Jr. 2005 Ed Anderson & Richard Angelico 2006 Special award honoring Alec Gifford’s

50 years in broadcasting 2007 Ashton Phelps Jr.

SCHOL ARSHIP RECIPIENTS

2008 Press Club’s 50th Anniversary 2009 Dan Milham & Walt Philbin

PRESS CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS SCHOLARSHIP

Nicole Jones of Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Public Relations

2010 Byron Hughey & Angus Lind 2011 Jim Henderson & Mark Schleifstein 2012 Lynne Jensen & Norman Robinson 2013 Bob Breck & Bill Curl

PRESS CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS SCHOLARSHIP

Anna Foster of Mandeville Louisiana State University Public Relations

2014 Ed Daniels & Ted Jackson 2015 John Pope & Sally-Ann Roberts 2016 Bill Capo & Errol Laborde 2017 Bruce Nolan & Margaret Orr

RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP

Emma Lacey of Baton Rouge University of Louisiana at Lafayette Journalism