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Reporter's Notebook
Lost and Found in the Louisiana Diaspora
September 5, 2005 Some white Louisianans are finding common ground with the mostly poor and black evacuees from New Orleans that they are now taking into their communities. Many evacuees will have to start new lives in new towns across the South.
Reporter's Notebook
Are Katrina's Victims 'Refugees' or 'Evacuees?'
September 5, 2005 Hurricane Katrina created thousands of refugees who were forced into states throughout the South, and beyond. But not so fast. Media outlets have been deluged with complaints about the term "refugee."
Aerial Images: Katrina Remakes the Gulf Coast
September 5, 2005 When it comes to the marshes, beaches and barrier islands along the Gulf Coast, big storms give — and they take away. That's the lesson made clear from satellite and aerial photos.
The Other New Orleans
September 5, 2005 In New Orleans, some residents still cling to the joie de vivre that made the city a benchmark for music and nightlife. But there are ever-present signs of the storm that tore the city apart.
A Gulfport Family Surveys the Damage
September 1, 2005 A Gulfport, Miss., family takes NPR on a tour of their damaged home, which is littered with branches, baseballs, even a casket. The family counts themselves lucky. NPR producer Gisele Grayson describes the scene.
Media Circus
Media Sounded Early Warnings of the Worst
August 31, 2005 How haunting it must be for a news organization to fulfill its core function by sounding the alarm as the public's watchdog – and then to go unheeded. That's what has happened to the The New Orleans Times-Picayune.
