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Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Newspaper leader reflects on tough choices covering Katrina’s destruction

  • By Colin Falcon
  • September 7, 2025

Four days after Hurricane Katrina began tearing through New Orleans, Sophie Amoss still hadn’t heard from her father.  She.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

New bureau chief paused his promotion to report firsthand on Katrina

  • By Isabella Avila
  • September 7, 2025

In late August 2005, Manuel Torres got a big promotion from staff writer to bureau chief of a Times-Picayune.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Times-Picayune managing editor lead Katrina coverage, fought false narratives

  • By Martin Sullivan
  • September 7, 2025

Peter Kovacs woke up at 5 a.m. in the newsroom of The Times-Picayune newspaper the day after Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Journalist’s home becomes refuge for colleagues with nowhere to work

  • By Chandler Johnson
  • September 7, 2025

The day before the big storm, Terri Troncale packed two small suitcases, one for her clothes and one for.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Photographer faces piercing moral dilemmas documenting the aftermath of Katrina

  • By Morgan Auzine
  • September 7, 2025

Photographer Ted Jackson stood on an elevated bridge, looked down into the Lower Ninth Ward, and saw four women.

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