Katrina Changes Journalists' Values
Journal-isms asked several journalists of color, male and female, to tell readers in 50 words or less how their lives are different today because of Hurricane Katrina. These five responded:
Trymaine Lee, national reporter, MSNBC
"Katrina put my life and career in particular focus. To witness the pain but also the resilience of the people of New Orleans has been inspiring and affirming. Ever since, I've aimed my lens at inequality but also [at] the hopes and strivings of the most vulnerable among us."
Lee was a reporter for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans during the hurricane.
Bryan Monroe, Verizon chair professor, Temple University
"Ten years ago Saturday, I was arriving at the Biloxi Sun Herald on the day Hurricane Katrina devastated South Mississippi. For the next two weeks, I would help lead a team of journalists that would work 18-hour days, sleep on the floor of the newsroom and produce some of the most compelling journalism I had seen in my life.
"A year after Katrina, we were honored with the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for our coverage. Then, the company I worked for, Knight Ridder, was no more, sold to McClatchy.
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