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Team Coverage
Hurricane Katrina's late summer 2005 arrival on the Louisiana coast was no surprise to anyone- and the ample notice allowed CNN to have its best field producers, photojournalists, and correspondents in place to document nature's incredible destruction. But Katrina's landfall was far from the end of the story and in the storm's monumental aftermath, the network's contingent in the region grew to more than 150 journalists.
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Tracking the Spill
The investigation shows how Louisiana's fealty to the oil and gas industry has caused the state to suffer disproportionate environmental damage following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The story also examined the decisions that caused the disaster and reflects on a culture of recklessness at BP.
Tags: BP; Louisiana; Gulf Oil Spill; Deepwater Horizon
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Mighty Mississippi
Jeffrey Meitrodt of The (New Orleans) Times-Picayne explains how he and reporter Keith Darce managed to prove two rumors true: "that Louisiana pilots are some of the highest paid mariners in the country and that widespread nepotism makes it virtually impossible for nonrelatives to join the ranks." The reporters easily found public records on pilots compensation but then encountered a more difficult task - obtaining job applications and accident reports. The latter had to be typed into Excel spreadsheets for moths. "The results were irrefutable: of the 100 people elected to become river pilots in recent years, 85 are related to other pilots, with some able to trace their family connections back five or six generations," Meitrodt reports.
Tags: public records; freedom of information; FOI
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COLUMN: First Amendment protects the openness of civil trials
In this edition of the Legal Column, Mary Ellen Roy, a media lawyer with Phelps Dunbar, LLP in New Orleans, looks at a judge in Louisiana who opted for closing an entire trial to the public or the media.
Tags: COLUMN; Mary Ellen Roy; Phelps Dunbar; LLP; New Orleans; Louisiana; US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Lifemark Hospitals; Inc. v. Jones; Walker; Waechter; et all.
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FOI Notebook: The longest espionage prosecution; State reports
John Bender of the Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri writes about the successful prosecution of Samuel Loring Morison who leaked classified information to the press. The notebook also reviews FOIA-related court decisions or sunshine law changes in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota and New York.
Tags: 1917 Espionage Act; Nixon; Reagan administration; Naval Intelligence Support Center
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When the truth is elusive 2: The case of the serpent man
Perkins describes how several news organizations in Louisiana were duped into running stories about a rapist called the Serpent Man. The rumor turned out to be a hoax; the story is presented as a warning to reporters to double -check their facts.
Tags: rape; crime; sourcing; truth; obligation to the truth