Strupp Blog: NAPA VALLEY NEWSPAPER DEFIES EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

NAPA VALLEY NEWSPAPER DEFIES EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE

Say what you want about newspapers today, but the Napa Valley Register showed it gets the paper out even when an earthquake damages its home.

KGO-TV in San Francisco offered a great report on this journalistic success:

Read the Register's ongoing reporting HERE.

This is the latest in a long history of newspapers rising above their own impact from tragedies to report on them - from the New York Daily News in 1977's blackout borrowing lights from the Superman film crew to the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the Biloxi, Miss. Sun Herald literally wading through post-Katrina flood waters to publish.

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