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“Louisiana Considered” showcases South Louisiana's biggest stories and features interviews with journalists, newsmakers, and artists. The show is a collaboration between the WWNO and WRKF newsrooms. Airs Monday through Friday at noon.
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Influencer Aubrey Avocado on distinction between influencing and journalism; New Orleans venue owner sues Stubhub (opens the original)
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Social media has changed who gets to tell stories—and who audiences turn to for information. Influencers can reach thousands of people instantly, sometimes faster than traditional news organizations. But at the end of the day, influencers are not journalists. New Orleans influencer Aubrey Avocado joins us to discuss the power of having an audience, the trust that comes with it, and the distinction she sees between content creation and investigative reporting. New Orleans’ independent music venue
SpaceX impacts in Acadiana; the disappearing “Yat” accent; LSU New Orleans new student recruitment (opens the original)
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Last month, Gov. Jeff Landry announced a SpaceX launch site is coming to South Louisiana. Educational and economic development organizations are now retooling their workforce training programs in preparation for potential job opportunities. Christiaan Mader, founder of the Current in Lafayette, tells us more. New Orleans may be losing its accent. In a recent study by the American Dialect Society, Katie Carmichael, a linguistics professor at Virginia Tech, found a slow disappearance of New Orlean
Sea Change: The Future of the Beach (opens the original)
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We love our beaches. We build homes beside them, vacation on them, and spend billions of dollars trying to keep them from disappearing. But beaches are supposed to move—and as sea levels rise, keeping them in place is becoming more expensive, more difficult, and possibly impossible. So what happens when the sand, the money, and the time start running out? Coastal geologist Rob Young says we’re going to have to make some hard choices about what we protect, what we let go, and who pays for the ris
New Orleans’ 2027 budget proposal; formerly unhoused to potentially lose state funds; NAMI-SELA’s latest initiatives (opens the original)
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It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time to hear the latest on politics with The Times-Picayune/The Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace . Today we discuss the New Orleans budget and the plan to dig the city out of its major deficit. Federal funds that helped unhoused people get off the streets could be taken away by the state, forcing them to move into a temporary shelter in Baton Rouge. Verite reporter Katie Jane Fernelius joins us with more. Nearly half of Louisiana res
The costs of parole; how rates of gender-based violence in La. compare to other states; Kai Rysdall in New Orleans (opens the original)
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People on probation and parole are responsible for covering part of the cost of their community supervision. Some of those are one-time expenses. But many of them are monthly payments that can add up. Elise Gregg from the Gulf States Newsroom spoke to people across the region about the financial burdens that come with being on parole. For years, Anita Raj, executive director of Tulane’s Newcomb Institute, has been studying gender equity, global health and violence. Now, she’s taking her work nat
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