Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Deadly Decisions

By Bruce Shapiro

In a Katrina-flooded hospital, doctors injected patients with painkillers and sedatives. Were they trying to ease their pain or to speed their deaths? ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink tells the story.

Katrina: Two Years Later

This week marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. More »

The Lower 9th Ward: "Desolation Row"

The Independent's Andrew Buncombe visits New Orleans 18 months after Hurricane Katrina and finds that the city "has barely begun to recover." More »

"An Entire City, Gone"

Covering the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

By Elizabeth Aguilera and Chris Walker

Denver Post reporter Elizabeth Aguilera and Post photojournalist Craig Walker are in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. Elizabeth talked to fellow Post reporter Amy Herdy and provided this first-person report, sent Thursday, Sept. 8.

"Words Fail..."

Covering the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

By Penny Cockerell

I arrived on Monday afternoon and spent about a week covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the outlying areas of New Orleans.