MFP Contributor
Donna Ladd writes that she and nonprofit news founders Lisa McCray-Snowden and Karen Gadbois know they must challenge the status quo inside media.
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
MFP Editor and CEO Donna Ladd writes about growing thriving local journalism while ignoring the voices that tell us to “stay in your lane.”
Donna Ladd breaks down newsroom issues she believes set many other emerging journalism outlets across the U.S. apart from those preceding them.
“I can’t tell you how many white people, many of them young, have walked up to me at a restaurant or a grocery store and said: ‘Thank you. I was taught the Civil War wasn’t about slavery,” Editor Donna Ladd writes, explaining why her Mississippi newsrooms have reported difficult historic context for over two decades.
Donna Ladd writes that the Mississippi Free Press’s staff has been key in creating rapid growth in revenue and staff since its March 2020 launch.
“We want to help inspire our communities to talk to each other in person whenever possible,” Donna Ladd writes.
“When it comes to media coverage of violence, white victims matter more. Prove me wrong. Seriously,” Donna Ladd writes.
You may know that I grew up in Mississippi, but left the day after I got my political-science degree from Mississippi State University. I hightailed
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