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As of Oct. 31, 2022, our team is up to 46 national and U.S. regional awards and finalist nods since we launched in late March 2020.
As ProPublica notes, Judin’s “award-winning reporting on the Jackson water crisis has developed an international following” and The Washington Post identified him “as one of Mississippi’s top political reporters” in 2022.
In Austin, Texas, Publisher Kimberly Griffin accepted a Lion Publishers Community Engagement Award on behalf of the “(In)Equity and Resilience: Black Women, Systemic Barriers and COVID-19 Project” team, which also includes DeAnna Tisdale Johnson, publisher of the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi’s oldest Black newspaper.
The Mississippi Free Press, in its first year of publication, won 15 separate awards in the Diamond Journalism Awards, a Society of Professional Journalists contest that spans print, online-only, daily, broadcast and magazine news outlets in six states bordering Arkansas.
Carmen Quintero, 21 años, y su hijo Miguel, 2 años, (nombres cambiados) dejaron atrás Ocotepeque en Honduras para embarcarse en una peligrosa travesía por Guatemala
The following is a verbatim release from the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor: Special agents from the office of State Auditor Shad White have arrested John Davis, the former Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services…
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