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 ›
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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 ›
Stacie Sherman
I was working for Bloomberg on 9/11. I was in the New Jersey newsroom at the time, a pretty young reporter covering business. Bloomberg had many reporters and editors in that office back then. What I remember most, after all these… 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 ›
Brian Moritz
I actually slept through 9/11. That week in 2001, I was working nights at The Times Herald sports department in Olean. Since we published an afternoon paper, most of the staff worked morning shifts to put the paper out. I… Read More ›
Bill Reed
At the time of Sept. 11, 2001, I was a news editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, in charge of organizing and laying out the “A” or front section of the paper except the front page. It required the news judgment,… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Lisa Robert Lewis
TERRORISM! As I watched TODAY that morning, a plane came into view on my TV screen, racing toward the World Trade Center. I didn’t have time to articulate that word before that second jet hit the tower. Shock. Sadness. Uncertainty…. 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 ›
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