Bayou Brief

In Louisiana, the Bayou Brief makes a difference only because of readers like you.

"To be one of us is to cover a lot of ground."


—Louisiana political writer John Maginnis


Since 2017, we've been publishing hard-hitting, research-intensive, and reality-based journalism and commentary about Louisiana. We believe in holding the powerful accountable, in speaking truth to that power, and in telling the stories that are too often ignored and about the people and places that are too often forgotten.


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