Mark Schleifstein
Mark Schleifstein is a freelance environment reporter based in the New Orleans area who retired from The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate in December 2024 after 40 years with the paper. He currently advises environment reporting teams at The Times-Picayune and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. He is best known for his decades of environmental journalism covering Louisiana coastal issues, including co-authoring the 2002 series "Washing Away" with John McQuaid, which warned of New Orleans levee vulnerabilities three years before Hurricane Katrina, and sharing in Pulitzer Prizes for that Katrina coverage and for the 1996 series "Oceans of Trouble."
“Mark Schleifstein and John McQuaid — Journalists who wrote a prescient series three years before Katrina warning of exactly this kind of levee failure, winning two Pulitzers.”
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