Tyler Bridges, twice a member of Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, is a journalist based in New Orleans who reports on Louisiana politics for the Baton Rouge/New Orleans Advocate. He also free-lances for such publications as Politico Magazine. He is the author of three books on Louisiana politics: Long Shot: A Soldier, a Senate, a Serious Sin, an Epic Louisiana Election (Lisburn Press, 2016); Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002); and The Rise of David Duke (University Press of Mississippi, 1994). He was a 2011-12 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, was awarded Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Award in 2010 for his 10 years of foreign reporting in South America and was a Fall 2017 Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. A native of Palo Alto, Tyler is a graduate of Stanford.