Newseum retells Katrina story five years later

Five years after Katrina, the Washington, D.C., Newseum features a special, one-year exhibit, "Covering Katrina," that explores and explains how journalists reported on the disaster and its aftermath. The Newseum assembled the accounts and belongings of journalists, newspaper stories and artifacts from the Louisiana State Museum for what curators believe is the first major exhibit on news coverage of Katrina. About 80 front pages from around the world show how the story unfolded as the storm bore down on Louisiana and Mississippi — and what followed. Opened two years ago, the seven-level, 250,000-square-foot Newseum bills itself as “the world’s most interactive museum.”