Betsy Shepherd
Coastal ReporterBetsy Shepherd covers environmental news and is producing a podcast on the Civil Rights Movement in small-town Louisiana. She won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for a feature she reported on Louisiana’s 2016 floods.
Before joining New Orleans Public Radio, Betsy served as the managing producer of American Routes and online content coordinator at Indiana Public Media. She received her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University and earned two master’s degrees in journalism and ethnomusicology from Indiana University.
In addition to her work at WWNO, Betsy is a freelance radio producer and reporter for the BBC and The Southern Foodways Alliance.
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Louisiana’s civil rights movement was spearheaded by two pioneering Black-owned newspapers published in New Orleans during the 1860s. L’Union and the New… -
Hundreds marched through downtown New Orleans and flooded the interstate Tuesday night during the fifth consecutive day of protests organized in response… -
New Orleans inherited its red beans and rice, Creole cottages and Caribbean drum rhythms from the people of San Domingue, the French colony now known as… -
At Quarter-Capacity With No Tourists, New Orleans Restaurants Wonder How To Survive The 'New Normal'Before the coronavirus, people would line the block waiting to get a table at Willie Mae’s Scotch House, a Treme neighborhood restaurant that serves… -
The New Orleans Police Department broke up large crowds of people gathered at two establishments on Magazine Street — Tracey’s and the Bulldog Uptown — on… -
Louisiana can begin Phase One of reopening on Friday, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced at a Monday press conference. Edwards’ decision to lift his… -
From March 14 to May 2, more than 560,000 Louisiana residents applied for unemployment benefits.That's about 12 percent of the total population of… -
Steven is an addict. He has been off of drugs for six years now, and says he maintains his sobriety by regularly attending a Narcotics Anonymous support… -
Dozens of people line up outside the Broadmoor Church in New Orleans for the Broadmoor Improvement Association’s monthly food pantry. Standing six feet… -
For decades, Melissa Weber, better known as DJ Soul Sister, has been spinning rare soul, funk and disco records around town and on WWOZ. Her gigs were…
