By DAnn Penner on September 1, 2010
THIRD IN A SERIES “I think about how cut off we were from Africa — how our culture, our language, our God was taken away from us. So I think about New Orleans and it’s like, ‘Well, this is where I come from. This is where my family comes from.’ … As a young man, [...]
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By David Handschuh on August 31, 2010
This is one of the most intimate discussions of the thoughts, feelings and emotions that visual journalists faced during Katrina — worth viewing and sharing with the Dart Society groups and anyone who cares about the emotional impact of covering tragedy.
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By DAnn Penner on August 31, 2010
SECOND IN A SERIES “Yet the history of my family, like that of all black Southerners, is a history of dispossession. We loved the land and worked the land, but we never owned it; and even if we bought land, as my great-grandfather did after the Civil War, it was always in danger of being [...]
Posted in Books by Fellows, Covering Catastrophe, Hurricane Katrina, Moral Injury | Tagged d'ann penner, displaced, New Orleans
By DAnn Penner on August 30, 2010
“A lot of our old people are dying from broken hearts. One of my mama’s best friends off the West Bank, Ms. Frances, never lived outside New Orleans. She went to California and she died. It ain’t about no money. It’s about how you killing our people by separating them from their surroundings, everything they [...]
Posted in Books by Fellows, Hurricane Katrina, Journalists as Human Beings | Tagged d'ann penner, overcoming katrina
By Mike Walter on August 29, 2010
When I think back to five years ago, I think about the images. Sure, I remember the searing images of so much pain and suffering, but the lasting images of endurance that came to symbolize Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina are the ones that stay with me the most. I remember my fateful call to [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Hurricane Katrina, News About Us | Tagged Breaking Down, Breaking News, Mike Walter
By admin on August 28, 2010
D’Ann Penner and Keith Ferdinand’s empathy, conscience, intelligence and drive pulse through Overcoming Katrina, an oral history comprised of interviews with 27 black New Orleanians, all of whom survived, and were deeply affected by, the hurricane that devastated the Gulf region five years ago tomorrow. Penner, an award-winning scholar, and Keith Ferdinand, a New Orleans physician who lost a practice of [...]
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By admin on August 27, 2010
As media attention focuses on New Orleans and Katrina anniversary observances, bloggers are massing in the city to demonstrate “Internet activism” at the Rising Tide Conference this weekend. The conference Saturday at the Howlin’ Wolf intends to bring bloggers together to “dispel myths, promote facts, highlight progress and regress, discuss recovery ideas, and promote sound [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Environmental costs, Gulf Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina | Tagged New Orleans, Rising Tide
By John McCusker on July 19, 2010
The comparisons of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to Katrina are inevitable. It makes for an easy, perhaps even lazy, narrative. As a journalist who covered both, I have tried to avoid these conversations. Katrina and the BP spill are analogous events affecting the same region, sure, but these were distinct events. Even where [...]
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By The Dart Society on May 27, 2010
Check out the story about Mike Walter’s win at Cannes for Best Short Documentary. Produced by Mike, a 2005 Fellow, “Breaking News, Breaking Down,” was funded by the Dart Society and features the society’s “Target: New Orleans” project, which paired Dart journalists with counterparts at the Times-Picayune. It also tells the story of Mike’s witnessing [...]
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By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on May 12, 2010
“Breaking News, Breaking Down,” the documentary that 2005 Fellow Mike Walter produced with the Dart Society, will be screened at Cannes on Thursday. Click here to see the trailer. We are incredibly proud of Mike and the film, which was inspired by the society’s project in New Orleans post-Katrina. Led by Natalie Pompilio, a 2001 [...]
Posted in Hurricane Katrina | Tagged Breaking Down, Breaking News, Cannes, Mike Walter
