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Doug Mouton
Northshore Bureau Chief
Doug Mouton
As the Northshore Bureau Chief for WWL-TV, Channel 4. Doug is responsible for reporting on the news in St Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington Parishes.
“The opportunity to report on the Northshore, in the community where I live has been a wonderful experience,” says Mouton. “Everyday, I meet people that confirm my family’s reasons for wanting to stay here, and help rebuild the New Orleans area.”
Doug is 20 year television veteran, who moved to the Northshore in 2002. He is the winner of an Emmy Award in 2004, and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2005.
No stranger to the local scene, Doug grew up in New Orleans East and graduated from Brother Martin High School and the University of New Orleans.
His TV career began as an intern in the WDSU Sports Department under the legendary Buddy Diliberto. Later it included stops at KEVN-TV in Rapid City, South Dakota, KVHP-TV in Lake Charles, and WEAR-TV in Pensacola. Doug spent 11 years at ABC-26 in New Orleans, most recently as the Assistant News Director, until WWL-TV hired him to run the Northshore Bureau in October 2006.
A newsroom ‘jack of all trades,’ Doug has held full-time jobs as a Sports Anchor and Reporter, a News Anchor, Reporter, Producer and Manager. In 2005, he won the Master’s Award from the New Orleans Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He’s won 12 first place awards from the Press Club of New Orleans including Best Newscast, Best Sportscast, the 2005 Jim Metcalf Award for the year’s Best Story, and in July of 2007, he won first place awards for Best Deadline News Story, and Best Deadline Sports Story.
Doug, his wife Jamie, and their children Quentin and Emily moved to the Northshore back in 2002.
