Jim Amoss
Jim Amoss
Walter James "Jim" Amoss IIIis former editor of The Times-Picayune. Under his leadership and that of the publisher, Ashton Phelps Jr., the paper won two Pulitzer Prizes in 1997 for public service and editorial cartooning, and in 2006 won two more Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina...
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I don't think anybody has captured this feeling of utter queasiness you have when all your professional premises are taken away. Recounting it now, it sounds like everything fell into place (logically). But it was the most unsettling, nauseating experience. The outcome wasn't assured, and most of us only had a vague sense of what to do next.
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Our group stood in the parking lot, debating the right thing to do. They had three options, take the items, take them and pay for them later, or put them back.
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Our publisher is an incredibly determined guy. He saw it as a symbolic thing. He sort of willed it to happen.
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His view prevailed. The goods went back to the shelves and on they drove, empty-handed.
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I don't think there's any member of my staff who wouldn't trade all of it to get our city back.
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If the (Super) Dome and Convention Center had harbored large numbers of middle-class white people, it would not have been fertile ground for this type of rumor-mongering.
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When a group of reporters and editors showed up at the New Orleans Convention Center with a bundle of those first papers, people grabbed for them as if they were food.
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We're both covering the story and we are part of the story. One of our roles that was thrust on us was to make sure the story is told as accurately as can be.
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We're far more direct in getting at what we think matters. The urgency is palpable.