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I defended my master’s project before my faculty committee yesterday afternoon. I was prepared on paper but wasn’t exactly, er, focused. I had been sleeping in hour-long increments since Saturday night, so I was a little tired. And I made the mistake of skipping my morning coffee and eating at least half a cup of [...]
I have interviewed 10 journalists at the paper: editors, front-line reporters, reporters who joined staff post-Katrina. Each interview lasted an average of one hour and 15 minutes, time that flew by too quickly. These people tell stories for a living. Telling their own stories is something they rarely have an opportunity to do. Each has [...]
If there was a silver lining in the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe,, it was the boost of civic involvement and sense of community. Young and old, rich and poor, albeit in different ways, all went through Katrina. Some New Orleanians who didn’t experience extreme damage or loss, like reporter and now city editor Gordon Russell, felt [...]
“Perfect objectivity is an unattainable standard for journalists even in the best of times. Because nobody’s a robot, no journalist can be expected to write in a way that doesn’t reveal at least a little something about who that journalist is… Objectivity became that much harder for local journalists after Hurricane Katrina. We who write [...]
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