Jesse Hardman
As 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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The Listening Post is back collecting thoughts and experiences from communities around New Orleans on a new series of issues. The past month we’ve been... -
The Listening Post is teaming up with the Unprisoned project, a new media initiative by award winning independent radio producer Eve Abrams. We want to ... -
A recent Pew Research Center report highlighted the fact that the United States is no longer a majority middle income country. We here at the Listening...
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New Orleans has had its fair share of high-profile crime problems. Now residents are set to vote on a sales tax hike to fund more state police officers in the French Quarter.
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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... -
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Hurricane Rita's landfall in Texas and Louisiana. Cameron Parish got hit the hardest by the category 3 storm. Luckily,... -
New Orleans is not on Pope Francis’s itinerary this week when he makes his first official trip to the United States. But the 266th pontiff has excited a... -
Over the last decade more than $14 billion was spent to upgrade New Orleans’s storm protection system. But ask around, and you’ll get a variety of... -
This story has been updated. Peter Fos, the President of the University of New Orleans, has announced he will retire at the end of January 2016. Fos... -
On Saturday New Orleanians will mark ten years since Hurricane Katrina in a variety of ways. Chris Hannah is the head bartender at Arnaud’s French 75 in...
