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Thank you for helping us grow journalism focused on solutions and equity. With your help, we exceeded our $200,000 NewMatch fundraising goal.
“I can’t tell you how many white people, many of them young, have walked up to me at a restaurant or a grocery store and said: ‘Thank you. I was taught the Civil War wasn’t about slavery,” Editor Donna Ladd writes, explaining why her Mississippi newsrooms have reported difficult historic context for over two decades.
Many of us are focused on gratitude and gatherings with friends or family this week. Some of us use this time to reset as the
“When it comes to media coverage of violence, white victims matter more. Prove me wrong. Seriously,” Donna Ladd writes.
“We are celebrating the start of 22 years of Free Press journalism that began Sept. 22, 2002, at the Jackson Free Press, the predecessor of our newsroom and our ongoing strategy to uncover and inspire solutions for the state and the nation with a county-by-county approach,” Kimberly Griffin writes.
Cassreino has two decades of journalism experience that he uses to amplify the journalism program at St. Joseph Catholic School in Madison, Miss.
You may know that I grew up in Mississippi, but left the day after I got my political-science degree from Mississippi State University. I hightailed
The Mississippi Free Press asked a court on Monday to hold that Mississippi House Republican Caucus meetings must be open to the public under the Open Meetings Act. Last year, the full Mississippi Ethics Commission rejected the Mississippi Free Press’ argument and declared that the Legislature is not a “public body” under the law.
“People, especially those who perceive themselves to be different from each other, have an opportunity to share their stories, and find common, or perhaps even higher ground,” Kevin John Fong writes.
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group is a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit media organization (EIN 85-1403937) for the state, devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism for the Magnolia State and all of its people.
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