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New Orleans Blogger Honored at Peabody Awards

By Ethan Brown

At the Peabody Awards yesterday, New Orleans TV reporter Lee Zurik took home a Peabody for his investigation into a city-run program called NOAH (New Orleans Affordable Home Ownership.)

NOAH was supposed to fix and remediate Katrina wracked homes but Zurik's investigation--which was kick-started by reporting from a New Orleans blogger named Karen Gadbois--found that NOAH charged the city for work they did not do and for addresses that did not exist. [More...]

Lee graciously brought Karen up to the dais when he accepted his Peabody. You can watch the speech here.

This is a good time to note what should already be obvious, but apparently is not: bloggers do not have a parasitical relationship with "real" journalists. They do original reporting. Many bloggers--like Karen--regularly attend hearings at City Hall and work on long-term investigative projects. In short, bloggers do the sort of reporting that journalists used to do but often fail to do now.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).