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A chronicle of chaos

Tracking the news story of Hurricane Katrina from The Times-Picayune to its website

Sue Robinson

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, robinson4{at}wisc.edu

The extraordinary breaking news story of Hurricane Katrina offered an opportunity to document how multimedia and interactive features interfere with the carefully crafted news story of a newspaper. Scholarship on news narratives and medium theory informed this case study, a textual analysis of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina coverage in The Times-Picayune and its web partner Nola.com. The main finding was that the New Orleans' newspaper tale of a mythic Flood in an American city transformed into a chronicle about people's personal experiences in cyberspace. In the process, audiences joined with journalists and reshaped the news narrative, which took on unique cyber-temporal and cyber-spatial qualities.

Key Words: cyberspace • Hurricane Katrina • myth • narrative • news • newspaper • online journalism

Journalism, Vol. 10, No. 4, 431-450 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909104949
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