Trip to bayou country

March 14, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: bars, bayou country, Houma, journalists, news, Thibodaux

[yes, that is a $1.25 Keystone Light tallboy special on the sign] My cousin Camille turned 21 on Thursday, so her older sister and I decided to visit her in Thibodaux where she goes to school. A friend of hers drove us to the bars, about a mile from campus. He parked along the bayou, [...]

Sit, stay awhile

March 11, 2009 in Field Notes, Research
Tags: interviews, journalists, oral history, project, Research, transcribing

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 [...]