Editor’s Note | Sunshine Week Warning: Government Secrecy Leads to Mississippi Brain Drain
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
Publisher Kimberly Griffin explains why supporting media that reports blurs a false division line between local and nation issues is critical to defending and protecting democracy.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter could become the latest defendant in former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s ongoing lawsuit against online news publication Mississippi Today. The former governor’s legal team is seeking to add reporter Anna Wolfe, whose “Backchannel” series earned the publication a coveted local-reporting Pulitzer Prize last May, as a defendant over a story she reported late last year.
Nate Schumann reflects on his entry into the news industry and shows appreciation for having a job that has helped him grow while growing alongside him.
MFP Editor and CEO Donna Ladd writes about growing thriving local journalism while ignoring the voices that tell us to “stay in your lane.”
We may be a Mississippi-based news publication, but Trump’s comments about encouraging Russia to attack NATO allies merited our attention too.
I spent part of this week at the Local News Summit in Charleston, S.C., which the Lenfest Institute and Aspen Institute convene for a small
Donna Ladd breaks down newsroom issues she believes set many other emerging journalism outlets across the U.S. apart from those preceding them.
Mississippi elections end, national elections begin. We’re used to the endless campaign seasons here in Mississippi, and 2024 will be no different.
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