“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.
Mississippi Free Press Editor & CEO Donna Ladd announces the promotion of Ashton Pittman to news editor and Kayode Crown to senior reporter.
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.
The MFP acquisition includes the entirety of the Jackson Free Press’ published journalism and work product, the Jackson Free Press name and mailing lists, access to social media accounts, and office furniture and computer equipment. Jackson Free Press Inc.
“This newsroom all of you helped build is, quite literally, a dream team,” Donna Ladd writes. “Now we’re ready to add another leader to it who wants what we have to offer and to grow with the MFP as all of these amazing human beings—all leaders, to a person—have done.”
Mississippi Free Press co-founder and publisher Kimberly Griffin reflects on the nonprofit news outlet’s first year as MFP turns 1 on March 15, 2021.
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