Times-Pic staffers back in New Orleans newsroom

Two months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Times-Picayune journalists are busy covering their city's recovery—and personally dealing with insurance adjusters and roofers and contractors.

Times-Picayune Editor Jim Amoss recently spoke with Editor and Publisher's Mark Fitzgerald, who writes:

But three weeks after the paper's return to New Orleans, Amoss added, the stress "is every bit as great as it ever was" during the storm, including the staff's now-famous evacuation to Baton Rouge in circulation trucks as floodwaters rose around the newspaper building.

"In the beginning, it was the stress of not knowing what ever happened to your house or your car," he said. "Now, it's the stress of, what am I going to do? Should I demolish my house? And if I do, is it going to have to be raised on 10-foot piling?"

Related: In the October/November issue of American Journalism Review, Times-Pic reporter Brian Thevenot describes the post-Katrina "Apocalypse in New Orleans."