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‘The crucial leap will be helping our audience become involved in the process much more directly.’

The news industry is a resilient bunch. Newspapers, in particular, represent some of the United States’s oldest and most respected companies. So far they have weathered storms of significant social,…

‘… when major events occur, the public can offer us as much new information as we are able to broadcast to them. From now on, news coverage is a partnership.’

A journalist wonders whether the mainstream news media will adapt fast enough to their changing relationship with the public to survive.

Homepage of Coastsider.In May 2004, Barry Parr, a former Web site architect for the San Jose Mercury News and CNET’s News.com, introduced his own new Web site to an online…

“Let me begin with a confession. After watching television coverage of Katrina for nearly every wakeful moment over the first few dramatic days, I quit. Cold turkey,” writes Curtis Wilkie,…

‘Our neighborhood should’ve gotten more media attention well before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.’

A veteran photojournalist observes that ‘… even during war the deceased are treated with some respect ….’

‘There was so much destruction that I couldn’t put down my camera.’

In small, forgotten towns of the Gulf Coast, a reporter tells the stories she heard amid the hurricane’s devastation.