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Donna Ladd writes that she and nonprofit news founders Lisa McCray-Snowden and Karen Gadbois know they must challenge the status quo inside media.
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Donna Ladd writes that she and nonprofit news founders Lisa McCray-Snowden and Karen Gadbois know they must challenge the status quo inside media.
“We were far luckier than some in our world because capital-area folks still liked the feel of newsprint in their hands, so the decline in print revenue was slower, giving us time to plan our next act,” Kimberly Griffin writes.
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.
We are unusual in Mississippi as women journalism leaders and visionaries when it comes to Mississippi’s potential, but it is our home, and we will fight for it. All of you have shown that you will, too.
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