Jason Saul

Director of Digital Services + Corporate Development

Jason Saul is WWNO's Director of Digital Services, a multimedia journalist and a member of the station's corporate media underwriting team, dedicated to fostering partnerships with local businesses in support of their outreach efforts and WWNO’s fundraising goals.

Jason heads up WWNO's sports desk, is the point person for digital initiatives and social media outreach, and is a spot news and features reporter during major events.

Jason, a native of New York (but a long-time resident of the Crescent City), has an extensive background in traditional, digital and social media, and the intersections between them.

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Hurricane Sandy Storm Tracker

By Jason Saul

3:48 pm

Mon October 29, 2012

How Does Hurricane Sandy Compare to Hurricane Katrina?

By Jason Saul

Lead in text:

From our partners at The Takeaway, from WNYC: Lt. General Russel Honoré weighs in with how Hurricane Sandy is similar to and different from Katrina, and shares his biggest concerns for before, during and after Sandy hits land.

Source: Thetakeaway

Lt. General Russel Honoré knows a thing or two about hurricanes. Honere was commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, where he was responsible for coordinating military relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina-affected areas across the Gulf Coast. He weighs in with how this hurricane is similar to and different from Katrina and shares his biggest concerns for before, during and after Sandy hits land.

2013 New Orleans Budget

1:14 pm

Mon October 29, 2012

Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Budget Remarks

By Jason Saul

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu presented the proposed 2013 city budget today at a press conference at City Hall. Below is the entire text of his prepared remarks.

Good Morning.

Today, I am presenting to the City Council and the people of New Orleans our proposed 2013 budget. All over America cities are struggling to balance their books and New Orleans is no exception. Across the board, costs are rising and we have additional requirements to fund the NOPD consent decree that will make 2013 a very tough budget year.

Coast Guard: Gulf oil slick comes from device used in 2010 spill

By Jason Saul

Lead in text:

An undersea camera confirms that an oil slick discovered in the Gulf of Mexico came from a 100-ton device on the seafloor that BP had used several weeks after the 2010 oil spill in a failed attempt to cap its runaway Macondo well, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.

Source: Fuelfix

3:03 pm

Tue October 16, 2012

Morning Edition: From a Team On 2 Coasts

By Jason Saul

Lead in text:

NPR’s “Morning Edition” has one of the most peculiar formats of any morning show on radio or television: it’s split between the East Coast, with the co-host Steve Inskeep in Washington, and the West, with Renee Montagne. The director cues Ms. Montagne through a videoconferencing system, and the co-hosts routinely add what they call “splits” to their scripts, so that they share the responsibility for introductions and interviews. “We are functionally sitting next to one another,” Ms. Montagne said, yet by staying on separate coasts, they are reflecting the audience’s geographic diversity.

Source: Nytimes

CULVER CITY, Calif. - Fifteen minutes before "Morning Edition" is beamed to radios across the country, Renee Montagne is ready to record her one-minute introduction. To cue her, the director points his index finger. "Good morning. It was the president's turn to court Latino voters..." And she's off.

2:27 pm

Thu October 4, 2012

A Muckraker Gets the David Simon Treatment in Treme

By Jason Saul

Lead in text:

The new season of David Simon’s HBO series Treme, which started Sunday and runs through Nov. 25, features a new character modeled on A.C. Thompson, the award-winning Bay Area reporter whose exposés of police wrongdoing after Hurricane Katrina shook up New Orleans. Now with the journalism nonprofit ProPublica and working out of the East Bay again after three years in New York, Thompson talks about putting bad cops in jail and spinning drudgery into art.

Source: Modernluxury

Nina Martin | Photo: A.C. Thompson | September 28, 2012 [Note: a shorter version of this interview appears in the October issue] You started reporting on New Orleans in 2007, when you were a freelancer living in SF. How'd you get onto this huge story?

Airport Security

12:28 pm

Sat September 29, 2012

Hornets VP Detained At Airport With Loaded Gun

By Jason Saul

A New Orleans Hornets executive was detained by police at Newark Airport after Transportation Security Administration agents discovered a loaded handgun in his luggage, the New York Post is reporting.

Runners, brass bands to raise money for high schools; Tipitina’s concert will help renovate Fess’s home

By Jason Saul

Lead in text:

A new 5k run replete with costumes and brass bands will raise money Saturday afternoon to support local high school music programs, and an array of legendary New Orleans musicians will participate in a benefit concert afterward to preserve the family home of Professor Longhair — all presented by the Tipitina’s Foundation.

Source: Uptownmessenger
| Via: Robert Morris | Uptown Messenger

DWI Checkpoint

7:15 pm

Thu September 20, 2012

Orleans DWI Checkpoint on Friday

By Jason Saul

The New Orleans Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday, September 21, the department said in a press release.

The checkpoint, manned by the NOPD's Traffic Division, will take place in an undisclosed area somewhere in Orleans Parish beginning at approximately 9 p.m., and will last until about 5 a.m. Saturday morning, the department said.

Motorists should experience minimal delays, according to NOPD, and should have proper documentation if requested, including proof of insurance and a driver's license.

4:02 pm

Thu September 20, 2012

Income plummets as region feels Great Recession's impact

By Jason Saul

Lead in text:

Median household income has dropped across the metro area, even as poverty rates have risen, according to a report just released by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.

Source: Gnocdc

In New Orleans (Orleans Parish), the share of the 2011 population that is African American - while lower than in 2000 when it was 66.7 percent - continues to represent the majority of city residents at 59.2 percent.

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Hurricane Sandy

3:55 pm

Mon October 29, 2012