Awards
2025
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 1st Place, Lucie Monk Carter, Best Critical Review, “What More Do You Need? The Precipice, the 2024 Documentary Film of the Year, Documents the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe’s Fight for Federal Recognition,” Summer 2024
- 2nd Place, Josh-Wade Ferguson and Alexandra Kennon Shahin, Best Magazine, 64 Parishes
- 2nd Place, Erin Theriot and Tina Girouard, Best Cover, 64 Parishes Fall 2024 Visual Arts Issue
- 2nd Place, Erin Theriot, Best Layout Design, “Louisiana’s Old Live Oaks: Story-Laden Trees Anchor the Louisiana Landscape”
- 2nd Place, Kerri Westenberg, “Building with Bagasse: A Marrero Company Found Sweet Success with Sugarcane Fiber until the Walls Tumbled Down,” Fall 2024
- 3rd Place, Erin Theriot, Best Layout Design, “The Red River Valley: A Lens on North Louisiana”
- 3rd Place, Ben Depp, Best Multi-Photo Feature, “Looking Down on Creation: Ben Depp is the Documentary Photographer of the Year”
- 3rd Place, Glenn Chambers, Jr., “New Orleans as the Nexus of Power: American Empire, Bananas and the Crescent City,” Summer 2024
2024
Society of Professional Journalists, Southeastern Division Green Eyeshade Awards:
- Green Eyeshade Award (Best Overall), Robert W. Fieseler, “A Bar Called Charlene’s,” Summer 2023
Society for Features Journalism:
- Honorable Mention: Robert W. Fieseler, “A Bar Called Charlene’s,” Summer 2023
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 1st Place, Kevin Rabalais, Feature Photography, “Tournoi de la Ville Platte: Defending the Cotton Crop with Old-Fashioned Sportsmanship,” Spring 2023
- 1st Place, Ricky Riccardi, Feature Reporting, “De-Satch-uration,” Fall 2023
- 1st Place, Benjamin Morris, Lifestyle Reporting, “The St. Joe Brickyard: Hiding in Plain Sight” Spring 2023
- 1st Place, Lucie Monk Carter, Best Critical Review, “Closing Time,” Fall 2023
- 2nd Place, Rien Fertel, Best Column, “Lost Lit”
- 3rd Place, Rien Fertel, Best Critical Review, “Always on the Threshold,” Fall 2023
- 3rd Place, Ken Kolb, Best in Environmental Reporting, “Against the Current: River Pilots in an Age of Automation,” Winter 2023
- 3rd Place, Erin Theriot, Best Layout, “Tournoi de la Ville Platte: Defending the Cotton Drop with Old-Fashioned Sportsmanship,” Spring 2023
2023
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 1st Place, Kerri Westenberg, Government/Political Reporting, “Warning: This Article Could Be Banned,” Spring 2022
- 1st Place, Chris Jay, Lifestyle Reporting, “Location Is Everything,” Winter 2022
- 1st Place, Rien Fertel, Best Critical Review, “Peace, Justice, and the Cajun Way,” Winter 2022
- 2nd Place, Sydney To, Best Critical Review, “Local Stories, Global Industry,” Winter 2022
- 3rd Place, Rien Fertel, Best Critical Review, “Brief, Brutish, and Bacchic,” Fall 2022
- 2nd Place, Richard Campanella, Best Column, Geographer’s Space, columns published in 2022
- 2nd Place, Ron Stanford, Multi-Photo Feature, “Memories of Nonc Tom’s,” Fall 2022
- 2nd Place, Erin Greenwald and Chris Turner-Neal, Best Magazine, 64 Parishes
2022
Society of Professional Journalists:
- Sigma Delta Chi Award and Bronze Medallion, Robert W. Fieseler, “The Formation of Reggie Adams,” Winter 2021
Society of Professional Journalists, Southeastern Division Green Eyeshade Awards:
- Best of Division: Magazines, Robert W. Fieseler, Robert W. Fieseler, “The Formation of Reggie Adams,” Winter 2021
- 1st Place, Robert W. Fieseler, Feature Writing: Magazines, “The Formation of Reggie Adams,” Winter 2021
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 1st Place, Erin Greenwald and Chris Turner-Neal, Best Magazine
- 2nd Place, Gwen Thompkins, Light Feature Reporting “Quarter Moons Rising,” Fall 2021
- 2nd Place, Richard Campanella, Column, “Geographer’s Space”
- 1st Place, Rien Fertel, Best Critical Review, “A Pox on All Their Houses,” Spring 2021
- 3rd Place, Erin Theriot, Best Cover, Fall 2021
- 1st Place, Erin Theriot, Best Layout/Design, “Reach for the Back and Pray,” Fall 2021
- 3rd Place, Erin Theriot, Best Layout/Design, “Crafting to Scale,” Summer 2021
- 2nd Place, Kevin Rabalais, Best Multi-Photo Feature, “Reach for the Back and Pray,” Fall 2021
- 3rd Place, Abdul Aziz, Best Multi-Photo Feature, “Domestic Conflict,” Spring 2021
2021
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 1st Place, Erin Greenwald and Chris Turner-Neal, Best Magazine
- 1st Place, Kevin Rabalais, Multi-Photo Feature, “River Harvest,” Fall 2020
- 1st Place, John Bardes, Feature Reporting, “Sailing While Black,” Spring 2020
- 2nd Place, Christie Matherne Hall, Feature Reporting, “Passed By,” Summer 2020
- 2nd Place, Rien Fertel, Lifestyle Reporting, “White-Bread Evangelist,” Spring 2020
- 1st Place, Rien Fertel, Best Critical Review, “Godforsaken, Imbecilic, and Insane,” Winter 2020
- 2nd Place, Andru Okun, Best Critical Review, “Digging Up the Roots of the Family Tree,” Fall 2020
- 2nd Place, Richard Campanella, Best Column, Geographer’s Space
- 2nd Place, Nik Richard, Best Editorial Illustration, “Funeral of Officer Oneal Moore” in “Equal Rights to All Men”
2020
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 1st Place, Erin Greenwald and Chris Turner-Neal, Best Magazine
- 1st Place, James Karst, Feature Reporting, “Young Satchmo,” Summer 2019
- 2nd Place, Kerry Myers, Feature Reporting, “View for a Windowless Room,” Fall 2019
- 1st Place, Christie Matherne Hall, Lifestyle Reporting, “Notes from a Gumbo Road Trip,” Fall 2019
- 1st Place, Rien Fertel, Best Critical Review, “Sea Changes,” Winter 2019
- 2nd Place, Monique Verdin, Multi-Photo Feature, “Treading Water,” Spring 2019
- 1st Place, Akasha Rabut, Portrait Photography, “Darrell Bourque,” Spring 2019
2019
Press Club of New Orleans Awards:
- 3rd Place, Michael Patrick Welch, Environmental/Science Reporting, “Fishing for Answers,” Fall 2018
- 2nd Place, Brandon Ballengee and Erin Theriot, Best Cover, Winter 2018
- 3rd Place, Alison Fensterstock, Column, “Disturbance in Your Mind: Exploring Esoteric Louisiana“
