Journalism in the eye of the storm

The harrowing and heroic story of how the Times-Picayune worked through the hurricane and its aftermath can be found in today's New York Times. The paper kept working through power and telephone outages, an evacuation, and staff members' worries about their own families.

Meanwhile, Romenesko is reporting that the Times-Pic's publisher denies rumors that the paper will shut down. "We just resumed publication so thoughts on ceasing publication at some later date are ridiculous," said Ashton Phelps Jr., the paper's publisher.

Finally, Howard Kutz writes in the Washington Post about television journalists showing their emotion and becoming somewhat activitist in its coverage of the disaster.