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 ...

In a now-famous essay known as “The Birth of the New Journalism,” journalist Tom Wolfe wrote about the evolving nature of journalistic craft. Though he unfortunately demeans the novel as a piece of ...

When a logging concession in Gabon threatened a community’s ancestral forest, their appeals to officials went nowhere—until someone wrote about it. Once the facts reached the public record, the ...

Local journalism is the heartbeat of informed communities. It brings stories to light that national outlets often overlook -- stories about school board decisions, city council debates, neighborhood ...