The New Orleans Times-Picayune is doing an excellent job in keeping publishing despite the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. After offices were flooded the paper published only online using pdfs. The paper publishes on NOLA.com, a New Orleans local website that was launched in 1998 in affiliation with The Times-Picayune.
The paper has set up a list of missing persons, where people can post information about people missing in New Orleans due to the hurricane or search for persons. This list had already nearly 5000 entries searching for somebody on Thursday morning 10:30 am local time. In the paper's Hurricane Center people can submit their hurricane stories. There is also a category for people offering help and services and evacuee information.
However, many victims which would need such services might not have access to an internet connection at the moment, states E-Media Tidbits from Poynter Online. Moreover, almost 70% of New Orleans' population are Afro-Americans and a large majority of them with very low revenues which means that they have only little access to the internet anyway.
