NEW ORLEANS — Longtime WWL-TV reporter is retiring after 15 years at the station, closing out a decades-long career in journalism that spanned print, television, and teaching.

Perlstein joined WWL in 2009 after more than 20 years as a reporter for The Times-Picayune and as a journalism professor at Loyola University. He began as an investigative producer but quickly transitioned to on-air reporting, becoming a fixture on the station’s investigative team for more than a decade.

Colleagues recalled his transition from print to broadcast. “Let’s just say he doesn’t have a TV bone in his body. But he blazed the trail for all former print reporters to television, and I’m very thankful for that,” lovingly said WWL Investigative Reporter David Hammer. “The stuff that he’s done in his career is

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