“Mississippi Opens the Playbook for Dismantling a Free Press -
A former governor is using the courts to stifle local reporting.
If he prevails, it will hurt press freedom nationwide, Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today’s editor in chief, writes.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/o...
UPDATE:
“Sued for defamation by former MS governor — a subject of the reporting — theyve been hit w/ a court order requiring them to turn over files including names of confidential sources.
They say the order is a threat to journalism that they will resist.”
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
“She took on a small Mississippi town’s police.
Then they arrested her.
How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
