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Gambit (formerly Gambit Weekly) is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based free alternative weekly newspaper established in 1981.
Gambit features reporting about local politics, news, food and drink, arts, music, film, events, environmental issues and other topics, as well as listings. Gambit publishes 36,000 papers each Tuesday, which are distributed to 400 locations in the New Orleans metro area beginning Sunday afternoon.
In January 2009, the paper changed its name from Gambit Weekly, to which it had been renamed in 1996, back to Gambit, the name under which it had been founded in 1981.[1] On April 9, 2018, Georges Media, the holding company for The New Orleans Advocate, purchased Gambit.[2][3]
Regular features include "Opening Gambit" (political news briefs), and "Thumbs Up & Thumbs Down," weekly awards for the city's "heroes and zeroes."
Gambit also publishes a weekly editorial and issues endorsements in many political races, with two notable exceptions: it does not endorse in national elections, nor does it endorse in judicial elections (on a longstanding political belief that judges should be appointed, not elected).
The paper sponsors the annual Big Easy Theater Awards and Big Easy Music Awards, honoring New Orleans' best performing artists.
On October 1, 2007, Gambit launched Blog of New Orleans to supplement its website Best of New Orleans with daily updates on New Orleans news, politics, arts, music, sports, cuisine and local culture. Its other publications include CUE, a monthly home and fashion magazine and BRIDE & GROOM, a twice-annual wedding guide.
The paper's columnists include political editor Clancy DuBos, who is also a political analyst and commentator on WWL-TV. Past columnists include Chris Rose, Jeremy Alford, Andrei Codrescu, and Ronnie Virgets. Other former writers and editors include Michael Tisserand, author of the books The Kingdom of Zydeco and Sugarcane Academy, Scott Jordan, former spokesman for the Louisiana Democratic Party, and Rich Collins, a member of the children's music group Imagination Movers.
同紙は数々の地方および全国的な賞を受賞しており、[ 4 ] [ 5 ]元ギャンビット紙記者のケイティ・レックダールは、ホームレスへの虐待に関する一連の記事で2002年にハンター大学のジェームズ・アロンソン社会正義ジャーナリズム賞を受賞し、[ 6 ]また、タラルーラ青少年矯正センターに関する「ルイジアナ州少年司法」と題したレポートで、2002年にケーシー・ジャーナリズム・センターの児童および家族問題に関する優れた報道メダルを受賞した。[ 7 ]
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