Chris Bynum, a 1970 graduate of the Journalism Department, is on campus today speaking with journalism classes. She'll be speaking with our Herald staff at 5 p.m.
She is a former editor of The Herald and is a health and fitness writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. She was part of the pulitzer prize-winning staff that covered Hurricane Katrina.
In my feature writing class at 2 p.m., she spoke and showed us a slideshow of images from Katrina. It was very interesting to hear someone who not only covered the disaster but lived it. Ms. Bynum lost her home and all her belongings in the flood. She told us how she had to balance living the storm with covering it.
She also told about her days as a fashion writer. She often covered big events like NYC's "Fashion Week." There, she attended Cher's Halloween/Birthday party, about which she wrote a piece "Desperately seeking Cher." (She never found her)
To read some of Ms. Bynum's work, click here
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