Reporter's First Week on the Job in N.O.

New London (CT) Day: Kate Moran, 25, moved from Connecticut to start her new job at the post-Katrina Times-Picayune. She got the job before the hurricane, but the Times-Pic still needed her. “I took a bag of clothes, a bag of toiletries, hiking boots, a sleeping bag, a spare set of sheets and two towels. And a lot of water,” she said. This week she earned her first Times-Picayune front page story, an account of the tape recordings of emergency officials preparing for the storm — tapes she got through a Freedom of Information demand." For a Google listing of other Moran stories, click here.