As New Orleans prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, most media watchers assume The Times-Picayune will produce its own retrospective on the sacrifice man...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/06/17/staff-cuts-katrina-anniv/
Hell and High Water has been named as 2014’s second-best non-fiction adult title by the National Federation of Press Women. In the award write-up, judges called out the book’s mastery in reco...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2015/01/03/hell-and-high-water-nfpw-runner-up/
Unionized employees of the 146-year-old Advance Publications-owned Jersey Journal across the Hudson River from Manhattan, demonstrated outside its just-opened new offices in Secaucus, N.J., this ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2014/01/06/protest-jersey-journal/
Seven former T-P employees who were among the more than 200 who lost their jobs in 2012 because of the radical “digital first” restructuring Advance Publications undertook at the newspaper an...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/12/13/former-employees-sue/
NOTE: Corrections below in underline and strike-through, making the distinction between digital non-replicas (smart phone and tablet apps) and digital replicas (PDFs). The semi-annual figures com...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/31/circ-1-year-later/
I recorded an appearance on Friday, Oct. 18, immediately before the book’s launch party, on “Informed Sources,” the media and public affairs show produced by New Orleans PBS affiliate WYES-...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/28/informed-sources/
The Press-Register of Mobile, Alabama, was one of three Advance Publications newspapers in that state that were subjected to “digital first” on the same day as The Times-Picayune. (The other ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/18/lagniappe-mobile/
Susan Larson, host of WWNO’s “The Reading Life” and former longtime Times-Picayune books editor (she and I worked together at the paper, but she left in one of the first rounds of buyouts, ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/16/the-reading-life/
Kevin Allman, editor of New Orleans’ respected alternative weekly Gambit, drove coverage of The Times-Picayune saga, trailing New York Times media reporter David Carr by only a few hours in con...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/15/gambit-review/
New Orleans Magazine Associate Publisher and Editor Errol Laborde has been generous with his time (while I was writing the book), valuable real estate (in the pages of the magazine) and with his ...
https://hellandhighwater-thebook.com/2013/10/07/new-orleans-magazine-errol-laborde/