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.’

With the ‘transformative power of anger, I was converted into a full-time columnist who took on the serious work of defending a city.’

The Times-Picayune’s ‘focus has gradually shifted away from how the city will be rebuilt to how it is — now, in the present tense.’

‘Creating multimedia stories will require flexibility, a collaborative spirit, and strategic planning,’ and these are essential skills that must now be learned.

An Essay in Words and Photographs

It’s been two years since Hurricane Katrina’s destructive force riveted the eyes of the world on the suffering of those left in its wake. In that time, newspapers in New…