At One Year: Katrina Wrap-Up
Items from newspapers and print media on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall…
- The SunHerald runs down the list of the City of Gulfport’s Hurricane Heroes, which were honored in a special ceremony on the eve of the first anniversary of Katrina’s landfall. The newspaper made the list.
- Exactly one year ago, Editor & Publisher chose a blog-like approach to monitor the disaster unfolding in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast — one of the few news outlets early on to draw on reader forums and blogs at local newspaper sites. Here are selections from the first 24 hours after the storm struck, mainly contributed by E&P Editor Greg Mitchell.
- E&P also revisits the herculean efforts of The Times-Picayune staff in New Orleans in the hours and days after the storm swamped that city with catastrophic flood waters.
- The Sun Herald has a sobering, massive collection of Before-and-After photographs of virtually every significant home, building and lanmark in the tri-county coastal region. It’s an impressive, but grim, reminder of how things used to be.
- The peaceful tranquility of August 29, 2006 was in stark contrast to what was going on one year earlier in Hancock County, as the Sea Coast Echo recalled.
- As it happened: The Mississippi Press has PDFs available for viewing of nearly three month’s worth of front pages following the impact of Katrina.