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Issue: Disaster Response
The Katrina Media Fellows uncovered critical problems with the system of disaster response in this country—from system-wide inconsistencies in FEMA flood maps and the resulting effects on homeowners, to major health problems resulting from trailers FEMA issued to displaced Gulf Coast residents.
Main Image: After the Storm: Life in the Crescent City
After the Storm: Life in the Crescent City
Eve Troeh was the only public radio reporter on the ground full-time in New Orleans after Katrina; she reports on public safety, housing, and cultural rebuilding.
Audio National Public Radio Stories National Public Radio Stories
Audio <i>World Vision Report</i> Stories World Vision Report Stories
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Another Black Blues Story
Clarence Williams is producing a photographic essay of post-Katrina New Orleans, from flood to aftermath to rebuilding, with a visual emphasis on the remnants of the cultural wealth and family ties that make this city unique.
Photo Another Black Blues Story Another Black Blues Story
Main Image: Beyond Black and White
Beyond Black and White
Sara Catania wrote stories on the long-term effect of the storm on Vietnamese communities all along the Gulf Coast.
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Main Image: The Can't Do Nation
The Can't Do Nation
John McQuaid researched and wrote about how government agencies, most notably Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers, are not set up to deal with the major challenges New Orleans and the rest of the United States are facing in the 21st century.
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Print Never Again? The Politics of Preventing Another Katrina Never Again? The Politics of Preventing Another Katrina
Print Storm Warning: The Unlearned Lessons of Katrina Storm Warning: The Unlearned Lessons of Katrina
Print What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina
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Generation Katrina
Youth Radio partnered with local New Orleans youth media groups, schools, non-profit organizations, and individual young people to create Generation Katrina: Youth Voices from New Orleans.
Audio College Student Conversation College Student Conversation
Audio Generation Katrina Generation Katrina
Audio God and Katrina God and Katrina
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In the Danger Zone
A website and series of articles by Steve Myers on how outdated flood maps contribute to the destruction wrought by hurricanes such as Katrina.
Print Alabama Left Behind Alabama Left Behind
Print Every Few Years, Another 100-Year Storm Every Few Years, Another 100-Year Storm
Print Fending for Themselves Fending for Themselves
Print In the Danger Zone In the Danger Zone
Print Thinking Outside the Flood Plain Thinking Outside the Flood Plain
Print Who's At Risk? Who's At Risk?
Main Image: Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Ten photographers from Kamoinge, a New York-based collective of African-American photographers, documented ravished communities impacted by the hurricane and the devastation's far-reaching ramifications on the economic, social, and racial fabric of its residents; the resulting body of work explores the despair, as well as the hope and resilience of the many residents who have lived in these communities for countless generations.
Photo Photographs by Collette V. Fournier Photographs by Collette V. Fournier
Photo Photographs by Frank Stewart Photographs by Frank Stewart
Photo Photographs by Shawn Walker Photographs by Shawn Walker
Main Image: Living Through the Storm
Living Through the Storm
Mark Hertsgaard focused on global warming and interviewed a wide range of people about what went wrong in New Orleans before Katrina, and how ongoing reconstruction and conservation efforts could protect the Gulf Coast in the future.
Print Adapt or Die Adapt or Die
Print On the Front Lines of Climate Change On the Front Lines of Climate Change
Print While Washington Slept While Washington Slept
Main Image: New Orleans Now: Weathering the Storm
New Orleans Now: Weathering the Storm
Tena Rubio developed the Katrina Uncovers/New Orleans Now series for the National Radio Project; as part of the project, she produced a 30-minute show on street art, a one-hour show about New Orleans two years after Katrina and a three-part series on the immigrant/migrant workforce in New Orleans
Audio Can Art Help Heal a Broken City? Can Art Help Heal a Broken City?
Main Image: Not As Seen On TV
Not As Seen On TV
Two producers from New York City's Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) traveled to New Orleans to collaborate with two local teen reporters on videos that illustrate how people of all ages are coping after Katrina. The films touch on how art can be used for healing, how residents are helping themselves in the absence of government support, and how issues of race, culture, and poverty continue to play a central role in recovery, relief, and revitalization efforts.
Video Not As Seen On TV Not As Seen On TV
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Rebuilding, Inc.
Tim Shorrock has been reporting on post-Katrina economic development and the health care crisis in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.
Print America Under Surveillance America Under Surveillance
Print The Street Samaritans The Street Samaritans
Print Why Didn't the Buses Come? Why Didn't the Buses Come?
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Struggling to Make It
Katy Reckdahl covered the working poor in New Orleans, their struggles to return to the city after Katrina, and the hurdles they faced once they arrived home.
Print Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans? Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans?
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Those Who Fell Through the Cracks
"Those Who Fell Through the Cracks" is a collaborative photography project by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen that documents Hurricane Katrina's effects on Gulf Coast residents who are still struggling to reestablish their lives after the storm.
Photo Photographs by Stanley Greene Photographs by Stanley Greene
Main Image: To Have Not, And To Hold
To Have Not, And To Hold
Filmmaker June Cross is working on a feature-length documentary film that examines the failures of public policy through the experiences of one extended family from New Orleans.
Video To Have Not, And To Hold To Have Not, And To Hold
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Toxic Trailers
Amanda Spake researched and reported on the long-term impact of Katrina on the health of Gulf Coast residents; special focus was given to residents who had moved into FEMA-supplied trailers, which are now creating a major health care crisis of their own.
Print Dying for a Home Dying for a Home
Print The Formaldehyde Cover-Up The Formaldehyde Cover-Up
Main Image: Where Do We Go From Here?
Where Do We Go From Here?
Joseph Rodriguez created an extensive body of photographs that will be distributed as a book, featured in online exhibitions, and displayed as a traveling exhibition consisting of approximately 25 multimedia portraits of individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Photo The Hendricks Family The Hendricks Family
Photo Julia Stewart Julia Stewart
Photo Katrina Robinson Katrina Robinson
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Won't Bow Down
Larry Blumenfeld researched and wrote about the post-Katrina realities faced by the prime movers in New Orleans's musical subcultures—from jazz musicians and brass band players to tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the Social Aid and Pleasure clubs—and the cultural crises that emerged in the wake of the 2005 floods.
Print Magic and Loss Magic and Loss
Print Mending the Levees Mending the Levees
Print Not Wash Away Not Wash Away
 
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