‘We were just trying to do the job and survive’
Inside The Times-Picayune newsroom, Paula O’Byrne, then the paper’s copy desk chief, was editing stories in the dark as Hurricane……
Category: Hurricane Katrina
Art critic transformed after reporting on the Katrina floods
Doug MacCash was a full-time art critic for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans when weather forecasters began predicting that a……
The reporters who refused to leave their city behind
They stood gathered in a circle in The Times-Picayune newsroom, photographers, reporters, editors and more, all survivors of the big……
Katrina reporter reflects on institutional failure: ‘We were drowning in neglect’
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
The night before Hurricane Katrina touched ground, photographer Kathy Anderson packed up her two daughters, then ages eight and nine,……