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Type of site | Nonprofit newspaper |
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Available in | English |
Headquarters | Ridgeland, Mississippi |
Owner | Deep South Today |
Founder(s) | Andrew Lack |
Editor | Adam Ganucheau |
CEO | Mary Margaret White |
URL | mississippitoday |
Launched | October 2014 |
Mississippi Today is a nonprofit online newspaper based in Ridgeland, Mississippi [1]
Mississippi Today was founded in 2016 by former Netscape president and CEO Jim Barksdale and his wife, Donna, alongside former NBC chairman Andrew Lack. [2] [3]
In 2023, Mississippi Today won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for their investigation of the Mississippi welfare funds scandal.
Mississippi Today started publishing in 2016. [4]
Mississippi Today is part of the Mississippi Press Association.
Its owner and parent nonprofit, Deep South Today, [5] was formerly called Mississippi News and Information Corporation. [1] It incorporated in 2014 and received 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in 2015. [1] Its founders aimed to compensate for dwindling local news coverage in the state. [5] Jim and Donna Barksdale, alongside former NBC chairman Andrew Lack, a longtime journalist, founded the organization; he is a New Yorker, but his mother was raised in Mississippi. [5]
Mississippi Today is a nonprofit journalism organization [5] and a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News. It is supported by grants from foundations, including the American Journalism Project and Ford Foundation, and via tax deductible contributions from donors such as Jim Barksdale, Archie Manning, and former Mississippi governors Haley Barbour and William Winter. [6] [ self-published source? ]
Deep South Today formed a second newsroom, New Orleans–based Verite, [5] in 2022. [7]
The organization's staff includes editor-in-chief Adam Ganucheau, a former reporter at the Clarion-Ledger , and CEO Mary Margaret White. [8] Marshall Ramsey, an editorial cartoonist, is the publication's editor-at-large. [8] In early 2023, Jerry Mitchell's Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting merged with Mississippi Today, and has since produced reporting that has been named a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize.[ citation needed ] In 2023, the staffers unionized through the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, and management agreed to recognize the union. [5]
Mississippi Today has won awards for its journalism from the Mississippi Press Association, the Online News Association, and the Hillman Foundation. [9] [10] [11] Mississippi Today investigative reporter Anna Wolfe won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for her investigation of the Mississippi welfare funds scandal. [12] [13] Other awards include the Silver Em Award, Livingston Award, Goldsmith Prize, Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshades Awards, and the Local Media Association's Digital Innovation Award.[ citation needed ]
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