When I think back to 9/11, it’s the visuals that rush to mind: the burning buildings that we could see from so many miles away; the cloud of smoke staring right at me in the middle of the night. The… Read More ›
Covering 9/11
Amy Moritz
I was a young sports reporter at The Buffalo News at the time, six years into my newspaper career. That week, I was visiting friends in the greater Washington, D.C. area. I had slept in and my friend greeted me… Read More ›
Eric J. Greenberg
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was still sleeping at 8:46 a.m. I had worked late at my newspaper the night before, the New York Jewish Week, the largest in the country, whose offices were located in Times… Read More ›
Marie DeNoia Aronsohn
I was living at the Jersey Shore, commuting to Trenton by way of Seaside Park where I would drop off my two children at school before my 50-mile drive. It was a break-your-heart blue sky day. As I took a… Read More ›
Aaron Chimbel
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a senior broadcast journalism major at Texas Christian University (TCU) getting ready for my 9:30 a.m. reporting course. As I got ready, it was becoming clearer and clearer what was unfolding: an unthinkable terrorist… Read More ›
Zack Fink
On the morning of Sept. 11, I was scheduled to fly with New Jersey’s Air National Guard on the final flight of their UH-1N Huey helicopter, which was being permanently retired. At the time, I was a Reporter for New… Read More ›
Donald Gilliland
September 11, 2001, was a Tuesday – production day at the rural weekly I edited at the time. I had been in the office until around 2 a.m. the night before laying out inside pages, so I didn’t arrive at… Read More ›
Deborah Howlett
I was working for USA Today in Chicago and that morning, as it happened, I was at an appointment with an obstetrician with my wife, Cindy, who was three months pregnant with our first child. I got a call from my… Read More ›
Jim Hooker
As a reporter for New Jersey Network News on the state’s public television network, the 21st century’s version of the Day of Infamy began like any other routine Tuesday in September: a half dozen or so reporters and assignment staff… Read More ›
Herb Jackson
I was Statehouse bureau chief for The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and remember driving down Route 1 to my office in Trenton listening to CBS Radio reporting that the first plane, and then the second one, had hit the towers. I had… Read More ›
