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Doctor S rounds up all things Eli Manning: Eli is going to be the New York Giants’ starting quarterback sooner rather than later, which means Kerry Collins won’t be a Giant much longer, Gary Myers of the N.Y. Daily News writes. Ditto, says Newsday’s Neil Best… and Eli will survive and likely thrive all the flak surrounding his draft, the Biloxi Sun Herald’s Jim Mashek says. … But Eli cannot be good, he has to be great, writes the N.Y. Post’s Paul Schwartz.

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Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.