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Category: Katrina Stories

Katrina reporter reflects on institutional failure: ‘We were drowning in neglect’

Katrina Stories
September 5, 2025September 5, 2025
by Jaden Geary

Reporter Trymaine Lee had been living in New Orleans and working as a reporter at The Times-Picayune newspaper for just……

Surviving the storm was a family affair 

Katrina Stories
September 5, 2025September 5, 2025
by Chloe Richmond

The night before Hurricane Katrina touched ground, photographer Kathy Anderson packed up her two daughters, then ages eight and nine,……

Environmental reporter warned of challenges before Katrina

Katrina Stories
September 5, 2025September 5, 2025
by Charles James IV

It was 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005. Mark Schleifstein, one of the country’s few dedicated environmental reporters at……

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