{"id":88857,"date":"2025-07-20T18:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=88857"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:11:20","slug":"jewish-journalists-celebrated-with-wins-at-press-club-of-n-o-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jewish-journalists-celebrated-with-wins-at-press-club-of-n-o-awards-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish journalists celebrated with wins at Press Club of N.O. awards banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWL-TV&#8217;s David Hammer walked away with four first place awards in the Television Category for WWL-TV, while fellow Jewish investigative reporter Lee Zurik was part of a team that took home 22 first place awards at WVUE-TV Fox 8 at the 67th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. The evening awards dinner was held at The Cannery in Mid City on Sat., July 19.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88859\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88859\" class=\"wp-image-88859 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-1536x907.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-2048x1209.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/177;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88859\" class=\"wp-image-88859 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-1536x907.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David_Hammer25-2048x1209.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-88859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WWL TV&#8217;s investigative reporter David Hammer holds his four first-place trophies at the 2025 Press Club of New Orleans Excellence in Journalism Awards banquet. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hammer won first place in the Television Breaking News category for his reporting on the indictment of Mayor LaToya Cantrelle in &#8220;Indictments: Public Official One.&#8221; He also won first place for Print\/Writing under the Environmental Science, Government Political and Medical-Health categories.<\/p>\n<p>Zurik garnered first place in the Television Documentary category for his &#8220;Outside the Office&#8221; series on Fox 8 that detailed Mayor LaToya Cantrelle&#8217;s alleged visits to a city-owned apartment in the Pontalba Apartments adjacent to Jackson Square.<\/p>\n<p>Another Jewish winner for the night included Larry Brook of Southern Jewish Life magazine for a first-place Print\/Writing Business feature story titled &#8220;Stay and Shop: New Orleans Landmark Rubinsteins Celebrates a Century of Fine Clothing by Opening a Boutique Hotel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CCJN editor Alan Smason received nominations under Print\/Writing for Critical Review and Breaking News Reporting, but placed second with &#8220;Jewish Songwriting Couples Are Focus of &#8216;Beautiful&#8217;: The Carole King Music&#8221; and third with &#8220;Police Remove Illegal Pro-Palestinian Encampment on Tulane Campus,&#8221; respectively.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Jewish%20journalists%20celebrated%20with%20wins%20at%20Press%20Club%20of%20N.O.%20awards%20banquet\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14737,8790,8795,8788,8919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88876,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88857\/revisions\/88876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}