Environmental reporter warned of challenges before Katrina
It was 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005. Mark Schleifstein, one of the country’s few dedicated environmental reporters at……
Category: Hurricane Katrina
‘A wake-up call’: The surge, change and challenges of climate coverage across U.S. media
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the storm was a breaking news catastrophe,……
Local news defined the Katrina story in New Orleans. Could it still do that today?
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, the newsrooms in New Orleans became lifelines for scattered residents. Reporters……
The Storytellers’ Stories: How this project came to be
I was a Louisiana transplant, working as a journalist in the nation’s capital in late August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina……