{"id":92804,"date":"2026-06-05T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=92804"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:28:59","slug":"ccjn-is-nominated-again-for-press-club-of-new-orleans-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/ccjn-is-nominated-again-for-press-club-of-new-orleans-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"CCJN is nominated again for Press Club of New Orleans Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Crescent City Jewish News is under consideration again for two major categories at the upcoming Press Club of New Orleans annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3048 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no.jpg 320w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/268;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3048 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/press-club-no.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>Press Club president Doug Mouton made the announcements on Wednesday night at a party designed to create interest in the annual gala that will take place on July 18 at The Cannery event space in Mid City.<\/p>\n<p>CCJN editor Alan Smason was selected as a finalist in the two categories of Breaking News and Best Editorial. Both items were written during and shortly after&nbsp; the New Year&#8217;s Day terrorist incident on Bourbon Street on January 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Under Breaking News, Smason was selected for the January 2, 2025 story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/fbi-atf-and-officials-proclaim-jabbar-was-acting-alone-city-reopens-bourbon-street-hosts-sugar-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI, ATF and Officials Proclaim Jabbar was Acting Alone; City Reopens Bourbon Street, Hosts Super Bowl<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under Best Editorial, the CCJN was also nominated for the January 1, 2025 opinion piece &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/op-ed-when-the-unthinkable-becomes-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When the Unthinkable Becomes Reality<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both awards are considered among the top categories under the major heading of Print articles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=\"CCJN%20is%20nominated%20again%20for%20Press%20Club%20of%20New%20Orleans%20Awards\";<\/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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92804"}],"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=92804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92806,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92804\/revisions\/92806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}