Today’s front page of the day comes from Gambit in New Orleans, Louisiana. Gambit led with a look into what’s changed in the city since Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005. Via Newseum:
The image under the curled back white paper is from Gambit’s first cover after the hurricane. From the piece:
After Hurricane Katrina, Gambit’s return to print was on Nov. 1, 2005 — All Saint’s Day, two months after the federal levee collapses. Our cover story, “Picking Up the Pieces,” posed three questions to locals:
• What should New Orleans’ priorities be at the outset of the rebuilding process?
• What elements of New Orleans must we preserve at all costs?
• What mistakes must we avoid at all costs?
These people were surveyed in late October 2005, a little less than two months after the city flooded. Many of their concerns still resonate today, and a few were quite prescient.
Here’s that original front page, via Gambit:
Carlie Kollath Wells, a NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reporter, has a pretty comprehensive database of Hurricane Katrina anniversary coverage here. There’s an archive of the paper’s Katrina coverage here. The (Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi) Sun Herald also has a series of befores and afters.
Correction: An earlier version of this story had the incorrect date for when Hurricane Katrina first hit.
