What a year and a half it’s been. Thank you for supporting @msfreepress nonprofit journalism in so many ways. It’s been a lot of work, but also so gratifying to watch our new model for journalism explode in our home state. Thanks to all of you in and outside Mississippi.
BTW, we’re about to take @msfreepress journalism to Level 2 of our model as our first official systemic-reporting bloc kicks off. You’ll see what I mean very soon. Stay close.
We are also about to announce growth of our team. Two things made this happen: (1) continual, loud, active reader support in so many way, and (2) the team’s excellent journalism that helps us grow our funding base. When I say that the @msfreepress is teamwork, I mean y’all, too.
Put it this way, none of us has deep pockets or a pile of cash, and we can’t rely on funders who only support safe journalism that doesn’t offend powerful. We are building @msfreepress journalistic brick by brick as we can afford each one, earning your trust and support along way
If you can support @MSFreePress now or in the future (or monthly at any amount), you can give here below. But your shares, public comments, free newsletter subscriptions and follows of @msfreepress and other social accounts also help fund more journalism. formississippi.networkforgood.com/projects/87723…

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17 Sep
1. As editor, I'm going to point out that IHL wanted us to change an earlier accurate story by @ashtonpittman to gloss over this conflict between its motion and what they later said. I said NO WAY without knowing if they actually passed what they were saying they did. They hadn't
2. After IHL reached out, @AshtonPittman started pressing for minutes and evidence of what the motion they passed said, versus what they and colleges were saying it said.

Now, we learn that they revoted today to change motion to forbid mandates. Too bad, but at least it's clear
3. And seriously, IHL, don't come at us wanting corrections when it's your own confusion or subterfuge or whatever that is the problem. We can read and reason.
Read 6 tweets
17 Sep
It’s good that quality media outlets are starting to dump horserace coverage and bad concept of even calling someone a “political reporter,” but damn, the harm we could’ve avoided had they admitted the obvious sooner.

Will Mississippi media keep up? editorandpublisher.com/stories/holdin…
I think the worst threat on this front are the powerful corporate, (white male) donors and board members, and white men running newsrooms in Mississippi. They *like* game of politics among people who look like them with little apparent regard for people, issues, sanity left out.
It’s journalism-dictionary definition of “old school”—and Mississippi has always been hamstrung by old-school, fake-middle, political-game obsessed journalism. I’ve never made a more serious statement: Needles will not move in Mississippi until this media approach is mothballed.
Read 8 tweets
7 May
1. Jim Prince of the Neshoba Democrat in my hometown repped media at the big state dominionist prayer service this week (one of 7 centers of power); see below. @AshtonPittman and I've written about him a few times already.
2. In 2015, Jim Prince came for me because I called out a sexist comment by House speaker. He brought all the overwrought, dumb insults (basically: I'm a communist. I'm decidedly not). He was then immediate past president of @MPAnewspapers. I fired back: jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/nov/…
3. In 2020, Jim Prince went after a minor boy who protested our hometown's Confederate statue and then ran an editorial claiming that Marxists were trying to take it down (he's kinda a one-trick pony with the red-baiting): jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/jul/…
Read 12 tweets
3 May
This is seriously what happens when a nation, and its media, frames everything as a two-sided, us-or-them game that serves only a few politically. It’s a sick narrative, and deadly.
Americans need to learn to think systemically, not along a fake partisan dividing line even about a pandemic. Media should lead on this front—not bolster and profit from this binary game. For one, let’s end what’s called “political reporting”—now just games of already-powerful.
Replace so-called “political coverage” (usually done by too-often-misogynistic and arrogant white men seeking fame/clicks) with policy coverage—focused on real people, needs and how needs served, how, who. That is, stop serving those who benefit from fake “red-blue” reporting.
Read 9 tweets
11 Apr
The opinions and question frames of @wlox anchor @DaveWLOX are among most interesting parts of @ashtonpittman’s followup to his viral story on SofS’s “woke college students” remarks. #TVNewsMS
Seems @wlox is now owned by Gray Television out of ... Atlanta.
Read 7 tweets
10 Apr
1. This, by @TaylorVanceDJ, is my pick for Mississippi journalism of the work (not done by a Free Press. Ha.) Transparency in local elections is so important.
My runner-up this week is this piece by Candace McKenzie because, as most of you know, adult literacy is very close to my heart:

mississippitoday.org/2021/04/09/mis…
This is the Guardian piece I wrote about my mother and her illiteracy. I was just looking at her literacy books last night, so I'm really feeling this issue right now:
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
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