62nd Annual Press Club of New Orleans Excellence in Journalism
Awards Nominees Public Relations PR 1 / Overall Campaign
Buisson Team Buisson Creative “Jefferson Parish Oyster Trail”
The Ehrhardt Group The Ehrhardt Group “Grow Louisiana Coalition Change of Scenery Campaign”
Maggie Robert, Larry Lovell PETERMAYER PR “Louisiana Children’s Museum Grand Opening in New Orleans City Park” PR 2 / Special Events
The Ehrhardt Group The Ehrhardt Group “GLAC 2019 Industry Day”
The Ehrhardt Group The Ehrhardt Group “The Roosevelt Hotel NOLA Chef Pop Up Series”
Kim Bergeron Kim Bergeron Productions / RightBrainDiaries.com “Blackout & Gold Second Line Parade – 2019 Super Bowl Sunday, New Orleans” PR 3 / Community Relations
Arthur Hardy, David Johnson Arthur Hardy Enterprises, Inc. “Fifty Famous Easton Eagles”
Arthur Hardy, David Johnson Arthur Hardy Enterprises, Inc. “Warren Easton’s Musical Legacy”
Kacey M. Hill PETERMAYER PR “Evangeline Maid Bread ‘Toasts’ 100 Years of Baking” PR 4 / Public Affairs
Buisson Team Buisson Creative “Don’t Let Trial Lawyers Buy Our Supreme Court”
Buisson Team, Kortney Cleveland, Greg Buisson Buisson Creative “Protect Louisiana PAC” PR 5 / Digital Media
Buisson Team, Kaitlyn Cleveland Buisson Creative “Just Imagine Vignettes”
Tom Gregory tGO Productions “The Mission of the Good Shepherd” PR 6 / Social Media
Melinda Daffin Ochsner Health “Ochsner Health ‘Pictures from the Past’ ”
The Ehrhardt Group The Ehrhardt Group “Galatoire’s ‘33’ Bar & Steak Rebrand”
Maggie Robert, Larry Lovell, Kacey Hill PETERMAYER PR “Zatarain’s Launches New Cajun & Andouille Smoked Sausages” Radio R 1 / Best Radio Story
WWOZ Staff & Volunteers WWOZ-FM “WWOZ Stories: The History of WWOZ” R 2 / Best Radio Show
Diane Mack WWNO-FM “Inside the Arts: Essence Music Milestone, Music Showcase Winners, MAAFA Tribute”
WWOZ Staff & Volunteers WWOZ-FM “WWOZ Live Broadcast from the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival” Still Photography SP 1 / General News Photo
Max Becherer The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “Controlled Demolition at Hard Rock”
Sophia Germer The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “Officer-Involved Shooting on Bourbon Street”
David Grunfeld The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “Reaching for her Aunt” SP 2 / Feature Photo
Sophia Germer The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “Ace Jefferson Gets a Haircut”
Matthew Hinton Very Local New Orleans “Blackout & Gold Parade”
Michael DeMocker Very Local New Orleans “Carolers Fill Jackson Square with Holiday Cheer” SP 3 / Multi-Feature Photo
Donna Bush Slidell Magazine “Red Headed Woodpecker”
Monique Verdin 64 Parishes “Treading Water”
WWOZ Staff and Volunteers WWOZ-FM “Best of Jazz Fest 2019” SP 4 / Portrait
David Grunfeld nola.com “Emancipation of Slavery”
David Grunfeld nola.com “Super Sunday”
Akasha Rabut 64 Parishes “Photo of Darrell Bourque” TV Videography TP 1 / Breaking News Videography
WVUE Staff WVUE-TV “Hurricane Barry”
Brian Lukas WWL-TV “CBD Flooding” TP 2 / General News Videography
Adam Copus WWL-TV “Protecting Teen Athletes in the Summer Heat”
Derek Waldrip WWL-TV “Shattered”
WWOZ Staff & Volunteers WWOZ-FM “Second Line – Dr. John Memorial” TP 3 / Feature Videography
Eric Carle Jr., Carla Hockley YurView “Steamboat Natchez”
Brian Lukas WWL-TV “The Real Terminator”
WWOZ Staff WWOZ-FM “Funeral of Flaming Arrows Queen Shirley Goodman” TP 4 / Best Photo Essay
Whitney Hill WDSU-TV “Through the Eyes of a Hurricane Hunter”
Brian Lukas WWL-TV “Remembering Art Neville”
Kevin Mumphrey, Rhett Sharpe Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Public Schools “Lion’s Paw Coffee Shop” TP 5 / Sports Videography
Garland Gillen WVUE-TV “LSU Upsets Alabama”
Edwin Goode WVUE-TV “Saints vs. Seahawks”
Alvin Moore WDSU-TV “Nola No Call Pass Interference” TP 6 / Best Video Editing
Adam Copus WWL-TV “Treme: Death of a Neighborhood, Survival of a Culture”
Chris Russell WVUE-TV “Vinyl Revival”
Derek Waldrip WWL-TV “The Forgotten East” TP 7 / Best Visual Storytelling
Mark Chapman WDSU-TV “Human Trafficking Series”
Jon Turnipseed WVUE-TV “Cost of Choice”
Derek Waldrip WWL-TV “Chauvin Sculpture Garden” Print / Writing P 1 / Breaking News Reporting
Laura McKnight nola.com “ ‘Very Unfortunate and Tragic’: 2 Dead in Blaze after Car, which Evaded Traffic Stop, Crashes into Salon”
Laura McKnight nola.com “ ‘A Wall of Fire’: 5 Alarm Blaze in Central City Damages 3 Residential Buildings”
Ramon Antonio Vargas The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate “Ex-N.O. Deacon George Brignac Jailed” P 2 / General News Reporting
Matthew Hinton Very Local New Orleans “ ‘On to New Orleans, Freedom or Death’: Hundreds to Reenact 1811 Slave Revolt”
Ramon Antonio Vargas The New Orleans Advocate “Man Committed Weeks before Killings: Metairie Shootings Suspect Called Himself the Devil”
Rose Wagner The Maroon “College Democrats Pushed to Uninvite Pro-Abortion Rights Speaker” P 3 / Feature Reporting
James Karst 64 Parishes “Young Satchmo”
Kerry Myers 64 Parishes “View from a Windowless Room”
Katy Reckdahl Hechinger Report / The New Orleans Advocate “As a 6-year old, Leona Tate Helped Desegragate Schools. Now She Wants Others to Learn that History.” P 4 / Continuing Coverage
Tristan Baurick The Times-Picayune “The River’s Revenge”
Sara Pagones, Katie Moore The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “Accuser Speaks out Publicly, says ex-Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain Molested him as a Child”
Times-Picayune / New Orleans Advocate Staff The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Advocate “Hard Rock Hotel Collapse” P 5 / Investigative Reporting
Marta Jewson The Lens “Kennedy High School Graduation Scandal”
Sara Pagones, Mike Perlstein The Times-Picayune – The New Orleans Advocate / WWL-TV “Paradise Lost: Global Wildlife Center Draws Fire from Ex-Employees, Visitors for Animal Injuries, Alleged Neglect”
Mark Schleifstein, Tristan Baurick, Sara Sneath nola.com “Louisiana: Polluter’s Paradise” P6 / Medical – Health Reporting
Leslie Snadowsky BiZ New Orleans “Louisiana Cancer Research Center Infuses City, State with Research, Cash”
Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans “Tackling Costly Saints Stress” P 7 / Environmental - Science Reporting
Donna Bush Slidell Magazine “Bonnet Carre Spillway”
Donna Bush Slidell Magazine “The Mystery of Monarch Butterflies”
Mark Schleifstein nola.com “How to Better Explain Hurricane Threats? Barry Showed ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ of Storm Risk Assessment” P 8 / Governmental - Political Reporting
Larry Brook Southern Jewish Life “Scalise, Activists Spar over Antisemitism”
Marta Jewson The Lens “School District Can’t Access Federal Funds Assigned to Harney Elementary”
Michael Stein The Lens “New Orleans Department of Safety & Permits: Businesses in Most of City Can’t Host Outdoor Live Music” P 9 / Business Reporting
Davis Allen Preservation in Print “Coming Soon on Canal Street”
Kimberley Singletary Biz New Orleans Magazine “Aiming Higher with Hospitality”
Samantha Sunne The Lens “Company that Received Large Incentive Package to Create Jobs in New Orleans Plans to Hire Overseas, Records Show” P 10 / Lifestyle Reporting
Jeff Boudreaux, Josh Danzig Where Y’at Magazine “A Musical Trip through St. Louis Cemetery #2”
Christie Matherne Hall 64 Parishes “Notes from a Gumbo Road Trip”
Susan Langenhennig Preservation in Print “Historic Heart, Sustainable Soul” P 11 / Education Reporting
Marta Jewson The Lens “A Mother’s Year-Long Fight Reveals Charters Don’t have to Offer Services”
Marta Jewson, Greg LaRose The Lens “Five Years after Settlement in Citywide Special Education Suit, some New Orleans Families still Struggle for Services”
Katy Reckdahl Hechinger Report / The New Orleans Advocate “New Orleans Loses Teachers at Double the Rate of Other Cities Like it” P 12 / Best Editorial
Errol Laborde New Orleans Magazine “Speaking Out”
Katy Reckdahl The New York Times “John Bel Edwards Wasn’t a Soul Mate, but a Perfect Match in Louisiana”
Alan Smason Crescent City Jewish News “Closed Door Policy” P 13 / Best Critical Review
Rien Fertel 64 Parishes “Sea Changes”
Alan Smason Crescent City Jewish News “Dody Piper Astounds in SLT’s ‘She Loves Me’”
Alan Smason Crescent City Jewish News “Golabek's "Pianist of Willesden Lane" Deeply Moving, Personal Journey, Concert” P 14 / Best Column
John Case Slidell Magazine “The Storyteller”
Errol Laborde New Orleans Magazine “Streetcar”
Chris Rose New Orleans Magazine “Chris Rose” P 15 / Community News
Susan Langenhennig, Kim Chatelain Preservation in Print “Rising Concern”
Emma Ruby The Maroon “Police Chief Offers Updates on Assaults”
Rose Wagner The Maroon “RTA Ramps Up Accessibility” P 16 / Best Cover
Josh Danzig, Maxfied Bala Where Y’at Magazine “Best of Big Easy”
Richard Fuentes Slidell Magazine “The Color Purple”
Liz Jurey, Susan Langenhennig Preservation in Print “Fighting Fire with Prevention” P 17 / Best Layout - Design
Tiffani Reding Amedeo New Orleans Magazine “Bars”
Tiffani Reding Amedeo New Orleans Magazine “Pit Perfect”
Ali Sullivan St. Charles Avenue “Spring Fashion” P 18 / Best Headline
Kathy Bradshaw Where Y’at Magazine “The Greatest Thing since French Bread: Where to get a Good Loaf around New Orleans + 2”
Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans “Entrepreneur Jackson’s ‘Selfie Genes’ Stitched into her DNA + 2”
Rose Wagner, Erin Snodgrass The Maroon “Learning to ‘Concentrate’ + 2” P 19 / Best Editorial Illustration
Nicole Gerke The Maroon “Squeeze”
David Johnson, Arthur Hardy Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide “2020 Magazine Cover Illustration – a 60’s Mardi Gras Experience”
Storm Wells The Maroon “We are the Future” P 20 / Best Sports Feature
Amie Just The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “For Demario Davis, it was Faith that Saved this Saints Linebacker: My Heart Changed”
Ramon Antonio Vargas The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “The Contender: Regis Prograis’ Tight-Knit New Orleans East Family Awaits a Boxing Bout that could Change Their Lives”
Ramon Antonio Vargas The New Orleans Advocate / nola.com “Hartley’s Hurt” P 21 / Best Sports Column
Les East Multiple Websites “Les East’s Sports Columns”
Chris Price Biz New Orleans Magazine “In the Biz: Sports”
Rod Walker The Times-Picayune “Carver Killings, Rabbit, This Is It for Saints” P 22 / Best Magazine
Tiffani Reding Amedeo, Errol Laborde, Ashley McLellan New Orleans Magazine “Best Bars”
Erin Greenwald, Chris Turner-Neal 64 Parishes “Summer Issue”
Melanie Warner Spencer, Sarah George Louisiana Life “Good Hunting Issue” Digital I 1 / Best News Website
Kelly Massicot, Rich Collins Biz New Orleans Magazine “BizNewOrleans.com”
Alan Smason Crescent City Jewish News “crescentcityjewishnews.com”
WWL-TV Staff WWL-TV “wwl-tv.com” I 2 / News Blog
Errol Laborde MyNewOrleans.com “The Editor’s Room”
Pamela Marquis Biz New Orleans Magazine “Labors of Love”
Jennifer Schecter Biz New Orleans Magazine “Tourism Biz” I 3 / Sports Blog
Les East CrescentCitySports.com “Les East’s Sports Blog”
Les East CrescentCitySports.com / SaturdayDownSouth.com “Les East’s LSU Sports Blog”
Sean Fazende WVUE-TV “After Further Review” I 4 / Lifestyle Blog
Chere Coen Louisiana Life “Let’s Go, Louisiana”
Clint Durrett, Mary Staes Very Local New Orleans “Very Local New Orleans Headline Entries”
Chris Rose Me Again with Chris Rose “MyNewOrleans.com” I 5 / Digital Special Section
John Snell WVUE-TV “John Snell’s Tribute to the Coast”
Tom Wright The Lens “Behind the Lens Episode 26: ‘I Don’t Want this Fight’ ”
WWL-TV Staff WWL-TV “Down the Drain” I 6 / Best Use of Facebook
Clint Durrett, Mary Staes, Matthew Hinton Very Local New Orleans “Southern Decadence, Mia X, Chad is a Jerk, Goodbye Leah Chase”
WWL-TV Staff WWL-TV “Breaking News Coverage October 12, 2019”
WWOZ Staff WWOZ-FM “Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival 2019” I 7 / Best Use of Twitter
Matthew Hinton, Clint Durrett, Mary Staes Very Local New Orleans “Jeff Goldblum at Decadence”
WWL-TV Staff WWL-TV “Breaking News Coverage October 12, 2019”
WWOZ Staff WWOZ-FM “Jazz Fest 2019” I 8 / Best Use of Instagram
Davis Allen, Liz Jurey Preservation in Print “#NolaPhotoChallenge”
Matthew Hinton, Clint Durrett Very Local New Orleans “St. Joseph’s Night, Luna Fete”
Sam Winstrom WWL-TV “Saints Weekly Quiz” I 9 / Best Social Video
Rhett Sharpe Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Public Schools “Class of 2032”
WWOZ Staff WWOZ-FM “Second Line Season Announcement”
WVUE Staff WVUE-TV “Hurricane Barry: The Great Horse Rescue” I 10 / Best Social Media Campaign
Rhett Sharpe Channel 13 St. Tammany Parish Schools “Black History Month: Voices”
WVUE Marketing, WVUE Digital WVUE-TV “Saints Go Marching”
WWOZ Staff WWOZ-FM “Jazz Fest at 50” Television T 1 / Breaking News Reporting
Kate Nemarich, Jennifer Crockett, Aubry Killion WDSU-TV “Rex House Fire”
WVUE Staff WVUE-TV “Hard Rock Construction Collapse”
WVUE Staff WVUE-TV “Hurricane Barry” T 2 / General News Reporting
Kimberly Curth WVUE-TV “Local Families Emotional Reaction to Serial Killer Confession”
David Hammer WWL-TV “Hard Rock Hotel Collapse”
Lee Zurik, Cody Lillich WVUE-TV “Long Lines” T 3 / Feature Reporting
Erika Ferrando WWL-TV “A Life of Dance”
Rob Masson, Kevin Duckworth WVUE-TV “Shades of Gray”
Randi Rousseau, Whitney Hill WDSU-TV “Project Community Strive Program” T 4 / Continuing Coverage
Mike Perlstein WWL-TV “Global Wildlife: Paradise Lost?”
John Snell WVUE-TV “Coast in Crisis”
WDSU Staff WDSU-TV “Hard Rock Hotel Collapse” T 5 / Investigative Reporting
Katie Moore WWL-TV “Shattered”
Lee Zurik WVUE-TV “Unexcused Absence”
Lee Zurik, Cody Lillich, Jeff Duncan WVUE-TV / The Athletic “Empty Field of Dreams” T 6 / Medical – Health Reporting
Meg Farris WWL-TV “The Real Terminator”
Peyton LoCicero WGNO-TV “Avery’s Bravery: An 8-Year Old Beats Aggressive Cancer and Crosses Finish Line”
Ann Wills, Robert Berning III, Leslie Snadowsky Community Health Heroes “Nurse Practitioner Trend” T 7 / Environmental – Science Reporting
David Hammer WWL-TV “Stench of Failure”
Amanda Roberts WVUE-TV “Air of Uncertainty”
John Snell WVUE-TV “Queen Bess Island” T 8 / Governmental – Political Reporting
Aubry Killion WDSU-TV “Aubry Killion Interviews Mike Yenni Live”
Lee Zurik, Cody Lillich WVUE-TV “Clerk Investigation”
Lee Zurik, Cody Lillich WVUE-TV “Unpaid Tickets” T 9 / Business Reporting
Danny Monteverde WWL-TV “The Advocate Buys the Times-Picayune”
Leslie Snadowsky Biz New Orleans Magazine / WUPL-TV “How to Keep the Peace when Lending your Adult Kids Money”
Lee Zurik, Cody Lillich WVUE-TV “High Auto Rates” T 10 / Lifestyle Reporting
Tom Gregory YurView / LAE Productions “Abita Springs Opry”
Rob Krieger WVUE-TV “Best Chef Willa Jean Profile”
Fletcher Mackel WDSU-TV “From Beer Man to Leading Man” T 11 / Education Reporting
Greg Larose WDSU-TV “Special Education Abuse”
Travers Mackel, Chris Slaughter WDSU-TV “Matas Elementary Abuse”
Lee Zurik, Cody Lillich WVUE-TV “The Cost of Choice” T 12 / Best On-Air Talent
Kevin Belton WYES-TV
Tom Gregory YurView / LAE Productions
Aubry Killion WDSU-TV T 13 / Best Documentary
Katie Moore WWL-TV “Mystery in Ashes”
Eric Paulsen, Dominic Massa WWL-TV “Bless You Boys: Gayle Benson”
Gina Swanson WDSU-TV “Schooled Part 2: A Crossroads in Education” T 14 / Best Public Affairs
Marcia Kavanaugh, Paula Pendarvis WYES-TV “Reshaping Greater New Orleans: Seeking Safety & Justice”
Marcia Kavanaugh, Monica Turner WYES-TV “Chasing the Moon: The Crescent City Connection”
WVUE Weather Staff WVUE-TV “Weathering the Storm” T 15 / Best Talk Show
Marcia Kavanaugh, Errol Laborde WYES-TV “Informed Sources: The Collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel”
Errol Laborde, Marcia Kavanaugh WYES-TV “Informed Sources: 35th Anniversary Special”
Peggy Scott Laborde, Larry Roussarie, Kelsi Schreiber WYES-TV “Steppin’ Out” T 16 / Best Planned Event
Peggy Scott Laborde, Jim Moriarty, Barbara Sillery WYES-TV “2019 Rex Ball and Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus”
Dominic Massa WWL-TV “Bacchus 2019 Parade Coverage”
Ron Yager, Jim Dotson, Ted Ochoa WLAE-TV “Direct from New Orleans” T 17 / Best Station Promotion
Erin Finnegan, Stephen Burke, David Bell WDSU-TV “MeTV Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. ‘Traditions’ ”
Erin Finnegan, Stephen Burke, Joe Bird WDSU-TV “WDSU 70th Anniversary”
WWL-TV Marketing Team WWL-TV “Eyewitness Morning News – The Most Watched Morning News” T 18 / Best Promotional Campaign
Nick Chabarria, Derek Waldrip WWL-TV “Welcome Back Charisse” T 19 / Best Sports Feature Reporting
Kim Holden WVUE-TV “Half Court Hustle”
Ricardo Lecompte WWL-TV “New Orleans Hippies”
Doug Mouton, Paul Dudley WWL-TV “No Call Psychology” T 20 / Best Sports Special
Fox8 Staff WVUE-TV “Fox 8 Sports Special: Saints vs. Rams Playoff Game”
Doug Mouton, Danny Rockwell, Adam Ney WWL-TV “Eye on the Tigers: Preseason Special”
Taylor Walker, Deanna Faust WDSU-TV “2019 LSU Peach Bowl Special” T 21 / Best Sports Show
Tom Gregory, Carolina Loreto, Jeff Brenner YurView / WLAE Productions “Driven Show #4: Driving Legend and the Legendary Porsche”
Ricardo LeCompte, Danny Rockwell, Doug Mouton WWL-TV “4th Down Friday”
Doug Mouton, Danny Rockwell, Adam Ney WWL-TV “4th Down on 4” T 22 / Best Sportscast
Chris Hagan WVUE-TV
Juan Kincaid WVUE-TV
Fletcher Mackel WDSU-TV T 23 / Best Weathercast
David Bernard WVUE-TV
Bruce Katz WVUE-TV
Kweilyn Murphy WDSU-TV T 24 / Best Newscast
Caitlin Dwyer WVUE-TV “Fox8 Morning Edition at 6am”
Ian Kramar WWL-TV “Eyewitness News at 6pm”
Dannah Sauer WVUE-TV “Fox8 News at 10pm” The End