Rob Masson

New Orleans

Reporter at WVUE-TV (New Orleans, LA)

FOX 8 Reporter. New Orleans Native. LSU Grad. Two time AP Reporter of the Year.

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Twenty years after Katrina, residents reflect on the rise and fall of New Orleans public housing

1 week ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans had more than 7,000 public housing units, according to a congressional report. Though largely spared from the storm’s winds and floodwaters, the city’s major housing developments -- once known as crime hotbeds -- were demolished by unanimous vote of the City Council in December 2007.
Trump tariff proposal on foreign films sparks hope in Louisiana movie industry

1 week ago | kalb.com | Rob Masson

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose heavy tariffs on films produced outside the United States has generated cautious optimism among Louisiana film industry leaders, who hope the move could reverse years of production decline. Before the pandemic, as many as 20 film projects were active in the New Orleans area at any given time. Now, the local industry is struggling.
Trump tariff proposal on foreign films sparks hope in Louisiana movie industry

1 week ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose heavy tariffs on films produced outside the United States has generated cautious optimism among Louisiana film industry leaders, who hope the move could reverse years of production decline. Before the pandemic, as many as 20 film projects were active in the New Orleans area at any given time. Now, the local industry is struggling.
River crests arriving earlier and lower than expected, easing pressure on Bonnet Carre Spillway operations

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Mississippi River is cresting earlier and lower than previously forecasted, reducing pressure on flood control infrastructure and eliminating, for now, the need to open the Bonnet Carre Spillway. In an update on Tuesday (April 29), Ricky Boyett, spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, confirmed that predicted river levels no longer reach the operational threshold for opening the spillway.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy responds to outcry over deported Reachal Morales and child with cancer

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says his office has confirmed that a deported Honduran mother signed a form allowing her two American children to accompany her back to her home country. Cassidy says he has concerns about one of the children, a 4-year-old boy battling cancer.
New Orleans band leader, educator and military veteran Paul Batiste dies at 74, family says

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson |Ken Daley

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Longtime New Orleans-area musician, band leader, educator and military veteran Paul Batiste has died at age 74, his family told Fox 8. Relatives said Batiste passed away Friday night (April 25) after a fight with cancer. Paul Batiste was a founding member of the Batiste Brothers Band, a funk and blues act that formed in Metairie in 1974.
Louisiana House advances bill to eliminate wrongful conviction compensation law

3 weeks ago | kplctv.com | Rob Masson

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana House committee on Wednesday (April 23) advanced a controversial measure that would eliminate the state statute allowing financial compensation for individuals who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated. The House Criminal Justice Committee’s move comes after years of complaints from exonerees who say the state has consistently denied them the compensation already allowed by law — up to $40,000 per year of incarceration.
Louisiana House advances bill to eliminate wrongful conviction compensation law

3 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana House committee on Wednesday (April 23) advanced a controversial measure that would eliminate the state statute allowing financial compensation for individuals who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated. The House Criminal Justice Committee’s move comes after years of complaints from exonerees who say the state has consistently denied them the compensation already allowed by law — up to $40,000 per year of incarceration.
Grand Isle oysters get rebrand boost with ‘Grand Isle Jewels’ launch

3 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

GRAND ISLE, La. (WVUE) - Jefferson Parish is doubling down on a growing aquaculture industry wth hopes of making Grand Isle oysters a premium brand on menus across the country. Armed with a $140,000 grant from the state, parish leaders announced a new branding campaign for cultivated off-bottom oysters. The goal: introduce the world to “Grand Isle Jewels.”For more than a decade, oyster farmers have been raising oysters in baskets suspended in the salty waters off Grand Isle.
Mississippi River rising triggers Bonnet Carre Spillway test for first time in five years

3 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Rob Masson

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The rising Mississippi River has reached the floodgates at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin a test of the structure on Monday (April 21), the first such test in five years. Water surged through one of the spillway’s bays as engineers pulled massive 500-pound wooden pins from a central section of the flood-control system.

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