Jarvis DeBerry, editor of the Louisiana Illuminator, spent 22 years at The Times-Picayune (and later NOLA.com) as a crime and courts reporter, an editorial writer, columnist and deputy opinions editor. He was on the team of Times-Picayune journalists awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service after that team’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the deadly flood that followed. In addition to the shared Pulitzer, DeBerry has won awards from the Louisiana Bar Association for best trial coverage and awards from the New Orleans Press Club, the Louisiana/ Mississippi Associated Press and the National Association of Black Journalists for his columns. A collection of his Times-Picayune columns, “I Feel to Believe” was published by the University of New Orleans Press in September 2020.
Jarvis DeBerry is a former Times-Picayune editorial writer and columnist who was on the team that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
He was the founding editor of the Louisiana Illuminator and is an opinion editor at MSNBC.com. He lives his wife, Kelly, and daughter, Naomi.
