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Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Times-Picayune photographer reflects on how Hurricane Katrina changed his life

  • By Ella Armstrong
  • September 7, 2025

On Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, photographer John McCusker joined colleagues at The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans to wait.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

‘We were just trying to do the job and survive’

  • By Tyler Harden
  • September 7, 2025

Inside The Times-Picayune newsroom, Paula O’Byrne, then the paper’s copy desk chief, was editing stories in the dark as.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

Art critic transformed after reporting on the Katrina floods

  • By Noah Martin
  • September 7, 2025

Doug MacCash was a full-time art critic for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans when weather forecasters began predicting that.

Hurricane Katrina, Special Projects

The reporters who refused to leave their city behind

  • By Isabella Albertini
  • September 7, 2025

They stood gathered in a circle in The Times-Picayune newsroom, photographers, reporters, editors and more, all survivors of the.

Katrina Stories, Special Projects

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

  • By Jaden Geary
  • September 5, 2025

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

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