Articles

Survival First, Then Needed Newsroom Adjustments

‘All of the silos were leveled, and the Sun Herald newsroom became a blended team with an intense Katrina focus.’
September 15, 2007
Stan Tiner

Tracing Photographic Roots Brings Work Into Perspective

‘A good photograph to me is one that combines something of the past, the present, and the possible future.’
September 15, 2007
Eli Reed

The Poet’s Voice Surfaces in a Time of War

‘All of us have notebooks and brains full of narrative poetry.’
September 15, 2007
Eliza Griswold

Telling a Tough Story in Your Own Backyard

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…
September 15, 2007
Bill Haber

Digital Media Push Images to the Foreground

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.
September 15, 2007
Lester Sloan

The Friends of The Times-Picayune Relief Fund

Soon after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Susan Feeney and three women friends who worked at The Times-Picayune in the 1980’s started The Friends of The Times-Picayune Relief Fund to…
September 15, 2007
Susan Feeney

Reminding Readers of What Is No Longer There

An Essay in Words and Photographs
September 15, 2007
John Fitzhugh

Telling a Tough Story in Your Own Backyard

An Essay in Words and Photographs
September 15, 2007
Bill Haber

Journalism Driven By Passion

‘… we’re totally comfortable with the view that New Orleans should survive. As a newspaper, we’re clear on that position.’
September 15, 2007
James O’Byrne, Mark Schleifstein, Susan Feeney

Bypassing the Easy Stories in the Big Easy

An editor and author urges out-of-town journalists to park their preconceptions at the city’s edge and be prepared to do some digging to find the news.
September 15, 2007
Jed Horne