MCIR NEWS
Microsoft selects MCIR for program to preserve journalism
The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting will be part of Microsoft’s new pilot program, aimed at preserving local journalism.
The investigative reporting nonprofit has been discussing the project with Microsoft officials, which are seeking to aid local journalism in Jackson and the Mississippi Delta.
MCIR hosts journalists who kick Ass
In keeping with its tradition of hard-hitting reporting that shines a light on truth, MCIR is sponsoring a Zoom call July 15 with a number of journalists who have exposed corruption and intrigue and held government officials accountable.
MCIR Awarded Pulitzer grant for pandemic coverage
The Pulitzer Center, the largest single funder of enterprise reporting in the United States, has awarded the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting a grant to explore the effects of the coronavirus on impoverished communities in the state.
Veteran journalist joins MCIR to tell the stories of domestic violence against some of Mississippi’s most vulnerable mothers and children
Ann Marie Cunningham, a veteran journalist/producer and author of a best-seller, is joining the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting as one Columbia University’s 2020 Lipman Fellows.