The Ticker: Cooper, Raddatz, O’Brien…

> Tonight on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360: “Murder City USA” spends 24 hours in New Orleans following 18 killings in five weeks. Here’s the press release…

> ABC’s Martha Raddatz is back in Iraq for her twelfth trip there in the past four years. She reported from Camp Victory at the top of Wednesday’s World News…

> What’s up with Kathleen Kennedy? She anchored her last HLN newscast on Monday, but she’s still doing Headline Prime News Breaks…

> Radar says Brian Williams and EP John Reiss had a “newsroom shouting match” last week…

> Soledad O’Brien blogs: “What better way to tell the story of where New Orleans is going than through the eyes of young people? I’ve been grappling with ways to talk about the future of the city. Finally it dawned on me: Hand out cameras to young ‘reporters.'” Her first reports, titled “Children of the Storm,” air Friday on AM…

> The voting has commenced in FishbowlDC’s “Rising Star” contest…