The New York Observer

As Hurricane Katrina gathered force on Sunday, Aug. 28, my editors shipped me off to Hattiesburg, Miss., where Gannett owns a small newspaper—the Hattiesburg American—that sat right in the storm’s track. Our team of reinforcements flew in on the company jet right before Katrina’s first feeder bands swept the town. It was a Gulfstream with Read More

As Hurricane Katrina gathered force on Sunday, Aug. 28, my editors shipped me off to Hattiesburg, Miss., where Gannett owns a small newspaper—the Hattiesburg American—that sat right in the storm’s track. Our team of reinforcements flew in on the company jet right before Katrina’s first feeder bands swept the town. It was a Gulfstream with Read More