Sent to cover Katrina, reporter finds home
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Evelina Shmukler arrived in Pass Christian for the first time on Sept. 5, 2005, a week after Hurricane Katrina. The storm destroyed or damaged almost every building in the city of about 7,000; many of the residents who remained were clustered in a tent city.
Shmukler, a freelance journalist, had been dispatched to Pass Christian by The Wall Street Journal to write about the effects of the storm on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. But the tragedy and near-total devastation she found transformed her from a journalist into an advocate.
Five years later, Shmukler is the editor and publisher of the Pass Christian Gazebo Gazette, a weekly newspaper that began as a photocopied newsletter and has grown into full-fledged newspaper.
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