Observing the 2nd anniversary at the Katrina Memorial in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. (AP photo by Alex Brandon, a contributor to the Nieman Reports issue.)
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Katrina 2 years later
SHOWCASE
| August 241, 2007
In the fall issue of Nieman Reports, 19 reporters, editors and photo-journalists describe what it has been like to work on this story of rebuilding and struggle day after day.
It’s a two-year old story with no end in sight. In the fall issue of Nieman Reports, 19 reporters, editors and photojournalists working in New Orleans and on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast reveal the stress-filled intersection of what it takes to rebuild their own lives, the intense personal connection they have to this story, and the daily effort they undertake to find compelling ways to keep a Katrina-fatigued public focused on the slow-motion recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In comparing this to other disasters he’s covered, AP photographer Alex Brandon writes: “What I’ve experienced here gives me a deeper understanding of how Iraqi journalists feel each day they head out to tell a story that to them is much more than a daily assignment.” Click here for an advance look at the magazine in PDF.
