In need of heros?
Below is an excerpt from a story about Times Picayune journalists efforts, but read the whole thing here: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/06/Worldandnation/A_paper_presses_on.shtml
It's worth your time.
It's worth your time.
"The enthusiasm for the paper is unparalleled. ... I've never felt it in my 26 years running this paper," said Phelps, who wears a watch with a replica of the Spanish coin from which the newspaper got its name. "It's been our lifeline ... and a reaffirmation of the newspaper as a basic information source."
The paper's newfound scrappiness has not gone unnoticed. The staff just won a George Polk Award for metro reporting. Amoss was named Editor of the Year in January by the trade magazine Editor & Publisher . And there is widespread hope for a Pulitzer Prize.
"I don't think there's any member of my staff who wouldn't trade all of it to get our city back," Amoss said.
posted by Mountain Laureate at 8:16 AM
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That paper did an extraordinary job during Katrina. There was also a radio or TV station, as I remember, which had a blog going simply to get the news out in scraps and bunches, and to connect people who were looking for each other. I read it during that time obsessively. Then too, bizarrely, were the webcams in various parts of various parishes which were aimed at the streets and trees. You could check in -- from here in cosy, high, and dry west central Texas -- and watch the rain slashing, roofs lifting, water rising.
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