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 created a bank of resources and stories in his daily Al's Morning Meeting column: "
Prepping for Disaster: The Lessons of Katrina."
Today,
Keith Woods provided five lessons that journalists have learned from Hurricane Katrina -- lessons that can be taken to heart and applied to the next disaster they're sent to cover, as well as the stories they write on an everyday basis.
At the same time, Poynter's library director, David Shedden, compiled
a list of books that have been written about the disaster.
But that's not all. Updates will be added throughout the week, so keep checking back.
In the meantime, you can see how Poynter Online covered the 2005 hurricane season
below. (To add updates on local news organizations or to comment on our coverage so far,
click here.)
