Mississippi Today wins University of Mississippi’s Silver Em Award

Mississippi At the moment has gained the College of Mississippi Faculty of Journalism and New Media’s prestigious Silver Em award.

This yr marks the primary time a information group has obtained the award. The Silver Em awards honor Mississippians with notable journalism careers or journalists with notable careers in Mississippi.

“We’re very accustomed to the distinguished Silver Em award and know full effectively that it’s given to Mississippi journalists with distinctive journalistic contributions to the state or nation,” Editor in Chief Adam Ganucheau mentioned. “We’re immensely proud our group is now amongst that quantity. The UM journalism faculty has such a wealthy historical past of manufacturing impactful journalists and journalism, and we’re proud to hold on that legacy in our residence state.”

Ganucheau, CEO Mary Margaret White, Managing Editor Kayleigh Skinner, Viewers Growth Director Lauchlin Fields, Well being Reporter Devna Bose, Training Reporter Julia James and Group Supervisor Bethany Atkinson are all UM alums.

“It’s an honor to be acknowledged for this award, as a result of so many staffers in our newsroom are native Mississippians or went to varsity right here and selected to remain and do native journalism within the place they care about,” mentioned Skinner. “This award seems like a reminder to our newsroom and younger journalists throughout the state that you simply don’t have to depart to make a distinction.”

Mississippi At the moment was based in 2016 because the state’s first nonprofit newsroom. At the moment the group employs 18 reporters and editors to jot down about politics and coverage throughout a myriad of beats together with training, public well being, justice, surroundings, fairness and sports activities.

“We all the time try to make use of our public service platform to the state’s benefit, providing our work utterly without cost to readers and to any Mississippi information outlet that want to republish it,” Ganucheau mentioned. “We see our function as serving to bolster the state’s journalism retailers, not competing with them, and we firmly consider that the extra sunshine that may be shed on our state’s leaders, the higher.”

Mississippi At the moment can be honored throughout a ceremony on campus on April 12, at 6 p.m. within the ballroom on the Inn at Ole Miss.

“It’s only becoming that our faculty, which is targeted on instilling journalistic excellence in our college students, has the chance to acknowledge probably the most progressive and high-quality information websites within the nation,” UM Faculty of Journalism Affiliate Dean and Professor Deb Wenger mentioned in a college press launch asserting the award. “The truth that Mississippi At the moment is producing journalism in service to our state simply provides to the pleasure we soak up honoring these effective reporters and editors.”