Mississippi Today

Mississippi Today
Type of site
Nonprofit newspaper
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersRidgeland, Mississippi
OwnerDeep South Today
Founder(s)Andrew Lack
EditorAdam Ganucheau
CEOMary Margaret White
URLmississippitoday.org
LaunchedOctober 2014; 9 years ago (2014-10)

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.

  1. ^ "About Us". Mississippi Today. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  2. ^ David Bauder (29 April 2019). "NBC News chairman an unexpected figure behind nonprofit Mississippi news organization". STLtoday.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  3. ^ "Mississippi Today". American Journalism Project. Retrieved 2022-07-16.