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‘We have become tougher, more aggressive, more skeptical reporters due, at least in part, to the fact that we have a rooting interest in the outcome.’

‘I found the timeline of the city’s renaissance in mundane details and in revealing what daily rituals were still altered.’

After embracing ‘the value of persistent patience,’ an editor shares what he learned in the transformation of the newsroom and the place he calls home.

‘As it turns out, many of the systemic failures that plagued the Gulf Coast during and after Katrina should have been predicted ….’

‘Only after several months of covering these issues am I beginning to understand the scope and dimensions of the crisis.’

‘All of the silos were leveled, and the Sun Herald newsroom became a blended team with an intense Katrina focus.’

‘A good photograph to me is one that combines something of the past, the present, and the possible future.’

‘All of us have notebooks and brains full of narrative poetry.’

Hurricane Katrina is the most difficult assignment of my almost 29-year career with The Associated Press. Three days after the storm flooded the city, it became very clear that this…

In the midst of big changes in the working lives of photojournalists, a former news photographer looks at how journalism schools and programs should respond.