MCIR scores Pulitzer grant for pandemic coverage

By Mississippi Center For Investigative Reporting

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.

The project, “Poverty and the Pandemic,” will run as a series of stories, videos and photos beginning in late July.

Helmed by MCIR founder and president Jerry Mitchell, it will examine the effects of COVID-19 on some of the nation’s poorest. Joining Mitchell in this project are interns James Finn, a senior at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, and Samuel Boudreau, a student at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio; and photographer/videographer Sarah Warnock.