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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…

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

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.’

‘… 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.’