An economy and urban fabric are difficult to put back together, and there's nothing commensurate in recent American history to which we can look as a model. The last one for Katrina coverage went well beyond the newsroom and became a source of pride for everyone from production to circulation to advertising, the machinery that moves this company forward and produces this newspaper.
A reporter for New Orleans' Times-Picayune reflects on a wrenching period spent covering the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the effort to rescue a damaged yet absolutely essential place. Jim Amoss (left), editor of New Orleans' Times-Picayune, and Publisher Ashton Phelps Jr. shake hands after learning the paper had won two Pulitzer Prizes.
Officials trying to build a container transfer facility in Plaquemines Parish continue to work to find enough investors in order to sell $300 million in Gulf Opportunity Zone bonds, which must be sold by May. It's about 20 percent equity and 80 percent GO Zone bonds," said Sea Point Chairman and CEO Jim Amoss. "We can't sell the bonds if we don't have what the market determines is the amount of equity that would bring those bonds in at a reasonable rate.
Rieder comments that the media's coverage of Hurricane Katrina was particularly impressive because of the fact that the journalists were ready, even eager, to hold officialdom accountable. For years, the Washington press corps took a skeptical approach toward people in power. With Katrina, the chasm between the platitudes of the clueless government spokesmen and the ugly reality of New Orleans was overwhelming.
..., Sports Editor David Meeks asks Editor Jim Amoss for a delivery truck so he can lead a small group ...
NEW ORLEANS - The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, is dropping daily circulation after 175 years and plans to issue three printed editions a week starting in the fall. With the change, it would be the nation's largest metro newspaper to drop daily circulation in this digital age.
...Mathews said Jim Amoss, currently editor of The Times-Picayune, will run ...
When dozens of journalists from the New Orleans Times-Picayune boarded a fleet of delivery trucks and abandoned their newsroom to rising floodwaters Tuesday morning, the newspaper's future seemed in doubt. But Louisiana's largest daily returned to print Friday morning, thanks to the pluck of hundreds of journalists and the willingness of a neighboring newspaper to share its printing presses, the Times- Picayune's top editor said.
Jim Amoss described his journalists' rocky ride to safer qua...
Louisiana is trying to make up lost ground in international trade -- and fast -- but plans to make New Orleans a preferred seaport for container cargo have been floating around for a decade with no real resolution. A $380 million cargo facility near the mouth of the Mississippi River is just one of the ideas being suggested to reposition New Orleans in advance of the Panama Canal expansion, scheduled to open in 2014.
..."Jim" Amoss Jr., is the latest in a line of proposals to attra...
COMMENTARY
... white people," Times Picayune editor Jim Amoss said, "it would not have been a fertile ground for...
Amoss, eight months after Hurricane Katrina, looks back on The Times-Picayune's role and the everlasting effects of the disaster. For the people in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was just the prelude, triggering a far worse disaster that struck the city and the paper. Like any newspaper potentially in the path of a hurricane, The Times-Picayune had rehearsed for "the big one" many times. The staff worked in a hurricane-hardened steel and concrete building, and had prepared themselves by creating a special storm room in its fortified core. There, rows of computers would be powered by generators with enough fuel to last them a week.
NEW YORK (AP) - The staffs of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of south Mississippi captured Pulitzer Prizes for public service on Monday for chronicling the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina despite life-changing damage to their own homes and workplaces. Tears flowed rather than champagne in the Times-Picayune newsroom, which the staff had to evacuate just eight months earlier for about six weeks. At The Sun Herald, staff members cheered and fought back tears.
... quietly sobbed, Editor in Chief Jim Amoss stood on a table and said: "As our city was being ...
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