About Kingfish

Kingfish is an investigative journalism outlet based in central Louisiana with statewide and national reach. The publication exists to hold power accountable, document what the record shows, and put the receipts in the hands of the people who pay for it.

What we stand for

Default to Open

No ads, no paywall, no restricted access. Source documents, methodology, and finances are public by default.

Receipts over rhetoric

Every claim links to the document, the dataset, or the FOIA response. If we can't show it, we don't print it.

Accountability includes us

Conflicts of interest, corrections, and funding are disclosed in plain language, in the story, near the top.

We don't ask readers to trust us. We hand them what we found and let them check our work. — Kingfish editorial principle

The name

The name borrows Huey P. Long's self-given nickname — deliberately. Long built the charity hospitals, the free textbooks, the public roads, and LSU — by being willing to take on Standard Oil, the planter aristocracy, and the political machine that ran Louisiana for the wealthy. Kingfish carries forward that hybrid: reformist work, defiant posture.

We are not a Long apologist. We invoke the Kingfish who fought for the people, not the Kingfish who consolidated power for himself.

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