Jesse Hardman
Freelance ReporterAs the new Coastal Reporter, Jesse Hardman will draw on 15 years of worldwide experience in radio, video and print journalism. As a radio reporter he has reported for NPR, BBC, and CBC, and for such familiar programs as Marketplace, This American Life, Latino USA, and Living on Earth. He served as a daily news reporter and news magazine producer for WBEZ in Chicago.
He has worked extensively in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and has reported on New Orleans for Time. At WWNO Jesse has been the creator and producer of The Listening Post, the station’s civic engagement project. He holds degrees from Kenyon College, Ohio, and Harvard University, Massachusetts.
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This coming week in New Orleans will be packed with press conferences and commemorations as the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s nears. The Lower…
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Each month we talk with Richard Campanella about his Cityscapes column for Nola.com/The Times-Picayune. This month the Professor of Geography at the…
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A coalition of wetlands restoration advocates are using the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to push their cause, rebuilding marsh along the…
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Officials hope an ambitious plan to divert the Mississippi River will revitalize the wetlands that are a natural buffer against storms and floods. Opponents say the changes will upset local habitats.
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This week on All Things New Orleans, WWNOs weekly local magazine:Eve Abrams helps us explore some often used but misunderstand labels being placed on New…
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The devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the floods that followed is most visible in pictures of ruined houses and people’s destroyed possessions lying…
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New Orleans witnessed its 100th murder of 2015 a week ago. A 29 year-old local man was shot in his car in the French Quarter. The city did not see it’s…
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Most of the environmental restoration focus in Louisiana has centered around saving the disappearing wetlands around the Gulf Coast. But there’s another…
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries a health tourism industry popped up on the Northshore of New Orleans. It was in response to high death rates in…