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Mississippi Today is a nonprofit online newsroom headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi.Launched in 2016, it was founded by former Netscape president Jim Barksdale and his wife Donna, alongside former NBC chairman Andrew Lack, to address the decline in local news coverage in Mississippi.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal is the largest daily newspaper in northeast Mississippi.It was first published in 1872. [2] It is based in Tupelo, Mississippi, and owned by Journal, Inc. (formerly known as Journal Publishing Company, Inc. [1]) which also owns eight weekly community newspapers such as The Itawamba County Times, the Pontotoc Progress, the Southern Sentinel, the Chickasaw ...
WCBI-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Columbus, Mississippi, United States, serving the Columbus–Tupelo market as an affiliate of CBS, Fox, and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Morris Multimedia , which provides certain services to West Point –licensed CW+ affiliate WLOV-TV (channel 27) under a shared services agreement (SSA ...
The paper has no local competition in the daily market in Columbus, but does compete with a local weekly, the Columbus Packet, and two daily newspapers in its regional coverage area, the Starkville Daily News and the West Point Daily Times Leader. Subscriptions are currently $14.45 per month.
The newspaper was founded in 1991 by editor and publisher Roger Larsen. Starting in July 2010, Colin Krieger took over the position as editor and publisher of The Columbus Packet with Roger Larsen remaining on as a columnist. [2]
The first such newspaper in Mississippi was the Colored Citizen in 1867. [1] More than 70 African American newspapers were founded across Mississippi between 1867 and 1899, in at least 37 different towns. [2] From 1900 to 1980, at least 116 more such newspapers were founded in the state, but increasingly concentrated in the larger cities. [3]
Columbus is the principal city of the Columbus Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical Area. Columbus is also part of the area of Mississippi called The Golden Triangle, consisting of Columbus, West Point and Starkville, in the counties of Lowndes, Clay and Oktibbeha.
At its height, the Scott Newspaper Syndicate employed around 50 full-time workers and 500 part-time workers to prepare newspapers for publication, [6] including journalists Frank Marshall Davis, Robert E. Johnson, and Lerone Bennett Jr. [7] During and following World War II, many African Americans left the Southern United States for the American Southwest and Midwest (a period known as the ...