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LA Times: Newspapers Improvise With Web Editions and Blogs

LA Times Newspapers Improvise With Web Editions and Blogs

"The crisis at the Times-Picayune exemplified the challenges facing the media throughout the region being lashed and flooded by Hurricane Katrina. The newspaper was among several news outlets that moved into temporary workspace outside the flood zone and struggled to communicate with reporters, who were bedeviled by spotty phone service."

""I have been in this business a long time and we have covered a lot of stories, but this must be the most difficult," said Fred Young, a 40-year television veteran and senior vice president for news with Hearst-Argyle."

The New York Times Flooding Stops Presses and Broadcasts, So Journalists Turn to the Web
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"The Times-Picayune, whose daily circulation is 270,000, put out only an electronic edition yesterday with a one-word headline summing up the impact of Hurricane Katrina: "Catastrophic.""

"The Internet, as a decentralized communications network, can be more resilient than traditional media when natural disasters occur. "Owning broadcast towers and printing presses were useless," said Jeff Jarvis, a consultant to online media companies. "The Web proved to be a better media in a case like this.""

The Washington Times The press presses on to cover the story
"Lee Ann Schlatter, a spokeswoman for Knight Ridder, the publishing company that owns both the Gulfport and Columbus papers, said the company was sending in dozens of additional journalists from other papers as well as supplies.

"We're trying to get food and water in there," she said. "It's real basic survival needs to make it possible for these people to do the job."

With most regular telephones and cell phones rendered useless after the storm, Miss Schlatter said, the company was sending in satellite phones -- the same piece of equipment used by many reporters covering the war in Iraq. "

Mercury News News outlets, online journalists struggle to fill post-storm information gap
"During disasters such as the London bombings in July, citizen journalists posted voluminous on-the-scene photos and witness accounts at Web sites and blogs. But by its nature, Hurricane Katrina was so powerful that it hampered citizen journalism by knocking out power and communications lines and limiting their movements. Instead, established news outlets have been offering community forums and missing-persons bulletin boards.

"We take it for granted that the Internet is as susceptible as anything to outage,'' said Michael Tippett, founder of NowPublic, a Web site devoted to news by citizen reporters. NowPublic put up a missing-persons board. Although many hurricane sites mentioned it, only a dozen queries had been posted by Tuesday night, including Misra's."

""People are concentrating on surviving right now," Tippett added. ``We'll see the aftermath of it online later.''"

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