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New reception area.
Windows up in the great room.
Our new kitchen area.
View from Donna Ladd’s new office.
Sales room work.
New hallway from newsroom. They are working hard for us.
Elevator in the lobby. Nice floors. We’ll install a JFP crest soon…soon.
Conference room. Lunches, meetings, creative ideas all probably to follow…
Kitchen area.
New access to sales.
Outside, looking up.
City Hall.
Before paint and floors, this is what the open space looked like.
New doors.
Laying down new carpet.
Carpets, carpets, carpets.
Reception area.
Coming together.
Editorial — this is where stories are edited, fact-checked, and prepared for publication.
This is where occasionally we will have an intern sit and be useful and creative. Also, it looks nice in there.
Our kitchen and storage/workroom areas.
Open flow work space. If we need anything, we just call out our names.
From the 13th floor, there are gorgeous views from large windows. Good light abounds.

UPDATED: We are moving downtown after almost a decade in Fondren. Here are pictures of our new home! Wish us luck!

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.