Covering Katrina: Oct. 27 lecture describes
how paper survived and reinvented itself
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—On Oct. 27, the Middlebury community will have a unique opportunity to hear first-hand how journalists at the New Orleans Times-Picayune continued to publish throughout the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina, and how the storm changed both the city and the paper.
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| Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss |
The lecture, at 4:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium, is by Jim Amoss, editor of the Times-Picayune, and titled "The Lessons of Katrina: How a Newspaper Learned to Survive and Reinvent Itself." Amoss and the rest of the Times-Picayune staff have received national acclaim for their heroic efforts to inform their community and the nation about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Amoss began work as editor-in-chief of the Times-Picayune in July 1990. Under his leadership, the paper won two Pulitzer Prizes in 1997, the first since its inception in 1837. In addition, the National Press Foundation named him 1997 Editor of the Year.
Amoss is a native of New Orleans but spent most of his childhood in Germany and Belgium. After graduating magna cum laude from Yale in 1969, he continued his studies at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, specializing in German literature and the works of Thomas Mann.
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