The Lens received three first-place awards and eight further honors Saturday evening on the Press Membership of New Orleans’ 68th annual Excellence in Journalism gala.

The highest awards spanned the complete vary of how The Lens tells its tales; in print, photos and out loud: 

In all, eleven Lens entries had been finalists throughout ten classes this yr, with recognition all through the newsroom.

Of Reckdahl’s story, the judges wrote: “Gripping from starting to finish. This emotionally advanced function repeatedly challenges the reader’s ethical perspective whereas revealing the lasting affect of generational trauma in a deeply memorable manner.”

With three honors, Bennett was The Lens’ most-decorated journalist of the evening, together with each first and second place in Greatest Multi-Picture Characteristic, the place his “Sheltering in Place by the ICE Storm” joined “Younger Rollers” on the prime of the class.

The complete listing:

• 1st Place, Characteristic Reporting – Severe Characteristic: Katy Reckdahl, “Explaining Jessie Hoffman“
• 1st Place, Greatest Multi-Picture Characteristic: Gus Bennett, “To Fight Violence, Younger Rollers Provide a Happier Different: New Orleans Tradition“
• 1st Place, Greatest Podcast: Carolyne Heldman, Behind the Lens
• 2nd Place, Basic Information Reporting: Delaney Nolan, “Rust and Corrosion Threaten Levee Metal Pumps and Helps“
• 2nd Place, Medical/Well being Reporting: La’Shance Perry, “New Orleans Well being Division Launches a Misoprostol Map“
• 2nd Place, Way of life Reporting: Mizani Ball, “Taking in Parades Collectively, however Aside“
• 2nd Place, Greatest Multi-Picture Characteristic: Gus Bennett, “Sheltering in Place by the ICE Storm“
• third Place, Investigative Reporting: Delaney Nolan, “‘They tricked me’: Migrants really feel deceived by ICE after being promised $1,000 to voluntarily depart“
• third Place, Schooling Reporting: Marta Jewson, “The Lengthy Arc of John McDonogh Senior Excessive Faculty“
• third Place, Greatest Characteristic Picture: Gus Bennett, “Final Name on the First and Final Cease“
• third Place, Greatest Information Picture: La’Shance Perry, {photograph} accompanying “Regardless of Spotty Monitor File, Enterprise World to Develop into Image of New Federal ‘Power Dominance‘”

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