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The Advocate racks up Louisiana Sports Writer Association awards, including top writer
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (312+ words) LSU gymnast Amari Drayton bends her head backwards while leaping through the air during her floor routine at the SEC meet against Oklahoma on Friday, February 14, 2025 at the PMAC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Georges Media publications, including The Advocate, Times-Picayune…...
St. Tammany Farmer shines in LPA Better Newspaper Contest
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (140+ words) St. Tammany Farmer staffers and freelancers won a total of 17 awards in the Louisiana Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, results of which were announced at the LPA's annual convention held May 8 in Baton Rouge. The Farmer competes in Division 3 of…...
Jan Risher: First-time journalism teacher
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (15+ words) NOLA. com Read the full column: bit. ly/3 Pe A5a A...
What 20 LSU freshmen taught their first-time journalism teacher: "We were made for this.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (737+ words) Mya Miller, an LSU freshman from New York City, who was a student in Jan Risher's media writing 2010 in LSU's Manship School of Communications. This spring, for the first time in my life, I taught a journalism class. I've taught…...
Ron Faucheux: America at 100 " How they celebrating the nation's centennial
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (594+ words) America will soon celebrate its 250th birthday. This column recently looked at our nation's first milestone anniversary, its 50th. Let's now turn to July 4, 1876, when Americans marked the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. "The centennial anniversary of the day on which…...
Ron Faucheux: The 50th anniversary of American independence
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (483+ words) In a salute to Stars and Stripes, American flags wave in the breeze at the USS Kidd Veterans Memorial & Museum on the Mississippi River. Flag Day is observed each June 14 to commemorate the day the Stars and Stripes were officially…...
Letters: A newspaper's job is to expose readers to new ideas
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (205+ words) NOLA. com Recent letters make it clear that many people rarely step out of their single-viewpoint media sphere. For example, there's Duke Truby, who is certain (without evidence) that most readers are conservatives just like him, probably because that's all…...
New Orleans TV stations WWL, WGNO brace for changes, possible layoffs as parent companies merge
3+ mon, 1+ 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
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (46+ words) 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 be a better man....
Letters log March 5-12: Headlines grab attention, criticism
3+ mon, 2+ week 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....