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.

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…

An Essay in Words and Photographs

‘… we’re totally comfortable with the view that New Orleans should survive. As a newspaper, we’re clear on that position.’

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.

An Essay in Words and Photographs

‘Anyone who visits New Orleans knows the story is far from over.’

The clash between academic requirements for professors and the education students of journalism need to have grows more intense.

‘… anything that does not have a practical application appears pompous in print in the aftermath of genuine disaster and tragedy.’