New Orleans Times-Picayune publishes online only
Kudos to the New Orleans Times-Picayune for publishing an edition today after its offices were flooded. The newspaper was only able to publish online, though, posting PDFs to the Web site.
Since then, the staff has had to evacuate. A note on the site says, "The Times-Picayune was forced to evacuate our Howard Avenue newsroom Tuesday. We are setting up bureaus in Houma and in Baton Rouge to continue to provide coverage of this disaster. We will continue to publish the newspaper each day without interruption. We will make it available in PDF form on nola.com each morning around midnight."
You can see Tuesday's paper here:
• CATASTROPHIC -- Katrina: the storm we always feared (Page A-1, A-2)
• Page A-3
• Page A-8
• Page A-9
• Page L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4, L-5, L-6, L-7
• Page L-8
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1 comments about 'New Orleans Times-Picayune publishes online only'It is great that you have found the resource to continue publishing online despite the adverse conditions. HOWEVER, you are serving up national news as if your online publishing were still being read by the people of Picayune - peole currently without power or phone lines and thus no online access.
At least in my case I sought out your publication to find out what is going on THERE!
My daughter, son in law and grandson live in Carriere and they got one call out just after Katrina passed but we've heard no more. We'd like to know how hard Carriere was hit and Picayune as well. What businesses in Picayune are open? Will they have jobs and schools to go back to? Can they buy food? When might power be back up (they are on well water so without power they have no water).
Out here we all see the devastation of places near or below sea level and right on the coast and even heard of the flooding in Picayune which is at a higher elevation and inland. But Carrirer is higher yet and further inland and I suspect has missed the flooding - but surely suffered wind damage.
These are things we would really like to know.
Posted by Ted de Castro at September 2, 2005 9:43 AM
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