1. Thread: Stellar pieces by my small-but-mighty
@JxnFreePress reporting team from last week: First, State reporter @ashtonpittman does the kind of indepth campaign reporting you don’t find elsewhere in Mississippi. Read current cover story. #MSelex #MSgov
@JxnFreePress reporting team from last week: First, State reporter @ashtonpittman does the kind of indepth campaign reporting you don’t find elsewhere in Mississippi. Read current cover story. #MSelex #MSgov
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 2. City reporter @SeymaBayram0 brought us the second installment in her #smartjustice series on Hinds County (and state) criminal-justice system, this one on weak indigent defense in our state. I'm learning so much I've never seen reported in her series. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 3. Investigative fellow @nickjudin did his first magazine piece for us on what the Glenn Boyce/#IHL controversy says about academic freedom at the University of Mississippi. Wonderful writing, interviews and deep reporting. He has quite the source base. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 4. @nickjudin also found and dumped the sorta-scrubbed #IHL minutes from several years into our prized JFP Documents Morgue. He welcomes crowd-sourcing help on parsing them. nick@jacksonfreepress.com jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 5. @SeymaBayram0 spent a day chasing criminal-justice leads on the Gulf Coast and rushed back to cover Mayor @ChokweALumumba's State of the City address: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 6. @ashtonpittman chased down another segregation academy (and slavery) story based in Natchez. This time, both the Dem and Republican Senate nominees talked to him about their racist family histories, and this story does twist and turns. It's a must-read. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 7. Jackson lost a real fighter for the right side in Michael Raff, and Dustin Cardon eulogized him: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 8. While culture writer @AliyahJFP was off working on another in her vital #jxn neighborhood series (wait for it!), she filed an interview with an author who visited Jackson to promote her novel about a black virtual-reality game. Super conversation:
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/…
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 9. Speaking of culture, new editorial assistant Azia Wiggins is on a mission to ensure #jxn cultural events get full attention (+ attendance) they deserve. So I asked her to do a weekly Azia's Picks in jfpdaily.com. Her first dropped yesterday: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 10. We also welcomed new book reviewer @carltonmcgrone who reviewed a new novel, "Jackson," about race upheavals here in 1970: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 11. Back to election deep-diving, @ashtonpittman factchecked a mailer the @msgop sent out against @HoodForGovernor and found lies: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 12. Then my Dossier yesterday showed that Mississippi and Kentucky are using the same template mailer for red-baiting local Democratic candidates and trying to use national Dems with no connection to the South to smear them. Plus, Gov. Bryant miffed, more. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 13. Publisher @toddstauffer (also a trained race-dialogue facilitator) did powerful, real podcast with Dr. Karla McCullough on dehumanization of children and adults of color and its causes and solutions. She reads her poem about fearing for her boy's life. soundcloud.com/letstalkjxn/lt…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 14. My @LetsTalkJackson Politics podcast with Dist 4 Hinds County Supervisor Mike Morgan also went live. (He's up for reelection Tuesday.) I learned a lot about county and his history with WorldCom (he had recommended the ultimate whistleblower!) and more. soundcloud.com/letstalkjxn/lt…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 15. Offering a forum for not-usual-suspects always part of our mission since 2002. Queen Funmi returned this week to share how her @JxnFreePress column years back about jer domestic abuse led her abuser to ask for forgiveness. This piece is something else: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 16. Long-time Mississippi newspaperman Charles Corder and I go back to #hailstate in the early '80s. Now a cancer survivor like me, he is writing some wonderful columns, including on politics. Let's just see he is also not a @tatereeves fan. #mselex #msgov jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 17. Guest columns piling up these days at @JxnFreePress. This one, on @CityofJacksonMS efforts on carbon emissions, came in response to a good recent column by Jay Kucia. (Hint to City: tell us about these efforts so we can report on them. Pitch, please.) jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/nov/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 18. New Deputy Editor Nate Schumann wrote his first editor's note—a tribute to outgoing managing editor who mentored him so well, which is now his goal with new staffers Azia Wiggins and Robin Johnson. He nails collaborative/learning spirit we insist on. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 19. You might also have noticed that our social-media game is getting better and better. Huge props to social-media assistant Robin Johnson (ha, her handle isn't showing up for me) who is promoting many more specific local events, #jxn's cultural bread and butter, and more.
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 20. Well, that was quite the week of @JxnFreePress journalism for our tiny local paper. Great reporting is about time you spend finding and talking to real people far beyond power brokers. The why, how, solutions, stories. I salute our team bent on bringing our best daily.
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 21. Special shout-out to readers and sources who keep piling tips onto truth-to-power pile. Also to managers Kimberly Griffin and @wyldkyss who stepped up again as Todd cared for me after my shoulder surgery last week, Andrea Dilworth, @LeslynSmith, Ken Steere and rest of team.
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 22. Finally (I promise), we are blessed with a stellar senior designer with wonderful vision, Zilpha Young. I can't show it to you, yet, but she filed what will be the top Best of Jackson logo yet for #boj2020. Meantime, remember to go nominate now! sgiz.mobi/s3/Best-of-Jac… 
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman Oh, btw. Help us do even more of our style of journalism if you can. Join the #jfpvip club.
