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The James Beard Foundation has recognized three Mississippian restaurants in its initial list of nominees and will announce winners in June 2023.
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.
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.
“The team at the MFP, largely Mississippi natives, continues to bring home awards and honors because they believe in the solutions-focused, truth-to-power work they are doing on behalf of our state and all its people,” Shaye Smith writes.
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.
Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Kimberly Griffin networked more after learning she is the 2022 Emerging News Leader of the year in the Institute for Nonprofit News Awards.
Deputy Editor Azia Wiggins and Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Kimberly Griffin are helping lead a new, three-pronged approach to journalism in Mississippi and the United States: systemic reporting. Now, they’re both nominated for national nonprofit-news awards.
The Mississippi Free Press was the big winner at the 2022 Society for Professional Journalists’ Diamond Awards in Little Rock, Ark, on June 30, 2022. Sixteen members of the MFP team took 15 honors total, eight of them first-place awards for journalism published in 2021.
“What we need is innovation in Mississippi journalism, not nostalgia for the way it used to be done (and for whom),” Mississippi Free Press editor and co-founder Donna Ladd writes.
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