It feels weird to write it but I’m now a published book author, editor, and photographer. Lizzy Caston and I took delivery of our guidebook to New Orleans on the weekend, and I’m positively thrilled with the way it turned …Read more…
I’m writing this on Delta’s flight 11 from London Gatwick to Atlanta, where I’ll change planes for New Orleans, returning from a 14-day vacation in England, where I was born, and where I lived until I was 26: British. (photo …Read more…
As a public interest reporter, you treasure some emails. Such as the email this morning form the New Orleans coroner’s attorney, saying that a story we ran at The Lens yesterday had brought a law to his attention about budgeting …Read more…
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning FOX8 News reporter Lee Zurik ran a Lens story about police dispatchers asleep on the job last night: The New Orleans Police Department disciplined five police dispatchers in March for sleeping on the job at various …Read more…
The kind people at WTUL had me on the morning show to discuss coverage at The Lens of negotiations over a new jail. Naomi Martin did the interview, and of course, it’s fascinating. Check it out over here.
Matt Davis is mostly a writer, photographer, editor, publisher, entrepreneur and communications professional. In the renaissance tradition he occasionally also turns his hand to sewing, acting, poetry, filmmaking and so on. But when he dies, he would like to be judged solely on the quality of the relationships he enjoyed throughout the course of his life with other people. Because he feels, in the end, that those are the only point in being alive to do anything.
