The Company Man

摘要

A week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, John Reardon flew to Baton Rouge with a team of fellow Tribune Broadcasting executives on a chartered plane loaded with water, food and cash. Staffers at Tribune's ABC affiliate WGNO and its WB outlet WNOL had fled the studio they shared near the Super-dome and retreated to Louisiana's capital. Although the storm had knocked the stations temporarily off the air and badly damaged their facility, for Reardon, then-group VP for Tribune's West and South regions, the first priority was the employees, many of whom had lost homes and were separated from their families.