Katrina Media Fellowships
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John McQuaid
2006 Print Journalist To write a series of articles, "Re-imagining New Orleans," which explores the relationship between city residents and the tenuous geography around them. He will examine the staggering engineering, environmental, and social policy challenges of rebuilding. McQuaid is an investigative print journalist focusing on science, environment, and politics. During his 20-plus years at the Times-Picayune, he explored big ecological problems and their impact on people, politics, and institutions. He was the lead writer on “Oceans of Trouble,” a Pulitzer Prize–winning series that looked at the global fisheries crisis and its devastating effects on fishing communities. McQuaid also co-authored “Washing Away,” the 2002 series that analyzed the rising hurricane risk to the city and predicted what would happen when it sustained a direct hit from a major hurricane. In the months after Katrina, he helped drive the paper’s coverage of the levee system’s failures, dissecting the flawed design of the Army Corp of Engineers. He recently left the Times-Picayune to co-author a book, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Super Storms, which will be published in August 2006. Silver Spring, Maryland | |
