Mississippi Free Press Receives MacArthur Foundation’s Press Forward Grant for ‘Sustained Deep Listening’
The MacArthur Foundation announced Monday that the Mississippi Free Press is a part of its inaugural Press Forward funding cohort.
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The MacArthur Foundation announced Monday that the Mississippi Free Press is a part of its inaugural Press Forward funding cohort.
Reporters Aliyah Veal, Nick Judin and Kayode Crown led the Mississippi Free Press’ tremendous showing in last night’s Society for Professional Journalists’ Diamond Awards in Little Rock, Ark.
As of Oct. 31, 2022, our team is up to 73 national and U.S. regional awards and finalist nods since we launched in late March 2020.
The Park Center for Independent Media presented the Izzy Award to the Mississippi Free Press in a virtual ceremony from Ithaca College in New York on April 27.
MFP has suffered immense growth in readers, journalistic reputation, impact and team size, even as we’ve had no staff turnover since 2020. Read our best and most-read stories.
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.
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