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New Orleans Media Speaks About Hurricane Katrina

Director: Jeremy Campbell

Duration: 04:42

Disasters like Hurricane Katrina can make a journalist's career... but when the story is about your own backyard the stakes becoming painstakingly higher. Some local New Orleans reporters and anchors, like ABC26 weatherman Bruce Katz, watched their own homes destroyed on live television while continuing with the newscast. This short film will turn the tables and ask questions to those usually on the other side of the microphone. An all-star line up of local journalists break the "fourth wall" to explain the impact of the story on their lives... and on the future of their home city.