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Ready for the Big One: Making the Case for Disaster Preparedness Reporting

Ready for the Big One: Making the Case for Disaster Preparedness Reporting

Extreme weather may be changing attitudes about disaster reporting, making editors and the public more receptive to stories questioning preparedness
Debra Adams Simmons

Debra Adams Simmons

Vice president, Advance Local; former editor, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Susan Smith Richardson

Susan Smith Richardson

Editor and publisher, The Chicago Reporter
Wanda Lloyd

Wanda Lloyd

Former executive editor, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser

Doing My Own Thing

Iwas 5 or 6 years old when my mother, a great lover of Nigerian folklore, told me a story from one of the oldest tribes in my country. In my…
Margaret Low Smith

Margaret Low Smith

Vice president, The Atlantic; former senior vice president for news, NPR
Behind the Data Curtain

Behind the Data Curtain

In my first reporting job out of college, I traveled across Communist Eastern Europe and wrote travel guidebooks. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, I obtained my secret police…
Charlotte Hall

Charlotte Hall

Former editor, senior vice president, Orlando Sentinel
Susan Goldberg

Susan Goldberg

Editor in chief, National Geographic
Julia Turner

Julia Turner

Editor, Slate