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Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s Gulf Coast landfall. To remember the date, Poynter Online will produce a weeklong series of articles, resources and remembrances from journalists who were there.
Yesterday, Al Tompkins has… Read more
Mike Jacobs
Editor of the Grand Forks Herald
The best counsel I can give to journalists covering the aftermath of disaster is patience. The aftermath will last a long time. Here in Grand Forks, it seems like forever. That doesn’t… Read more
By Kenny Irby
Group Leader, Visual Journalism
On a bright, brisk December morning three teachers in a rented SUV toured the wind and water ravaged “Big Easy”.
It was some 108 days after Katrina, and no single photograph or video clip… Read more
The Katrina Project Site was an interesting look at Hurricane Katrina by a group of students at the P.I. Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University. We asked how the project came about and what went into putting it together.… Read more
Fanua J. Borodzicz, who serves as assistant to the dean at Poynter, helped organize the recent Covering Hurricanes conference in New Orleans. When it concluded, she took some vacation time and stuck around New Orleans. Here’s her account of what… Read more
Several dozen Gulf coast journalists gathered in Biloxi and New
Orleans last week to reflect on the experience of covering the
catastrophic storms and to discuss where they — and their newsrooms –
go from here. The… Read more
Poynter’s Jill Geisler was among a group of Poynter faculty leading a recent conference on Covering Hurricanes co-sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Here’s her account of one of the conference sessions in New Orleans:
Sandy Davis carries… Read more
By Bob Steele
Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values
Sense Memories: Recalling the Stories They Told in the Storms
By Jill Geisler
After Katrina, Seeing Still is not Understanding
By Kenny Irby
By Aly Colón
Reporting, Writing & Editing Group Leader
The journalists sat hunched over tables in a community college amphitheater. They had gathered in a classroom at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Gulfport, Mississippi.
By Roy Peter Clark
Vice President, Senior Scholar and Reporting, Writing & Editing Faculty
Sense Memories: Recalling the Stories They Told in the Storms
By Jill Geisler
After Katrina, Seeing Still is not Understanding
By Kenny Irby