Speaker: Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative ReportingAbout this Event
Pulitzer Prize finalist and MacArthur Fellow Jerry Mitchell has spent more than three decades uncovering stories that reopened cold civil rights cases, freed two people from death row, and exposed corruption across Mississippi. Join us for this month's chapter meeting where Jerry will share what he has learned about finding a story, earning trust, and telling it in a way that makes people pay attention and act.
About the Presenter
The stories of investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have helped put four Klansmen and a serial killer behind bars. His stories have also helped free two people from death row, exposed injustices and corruption, prompting investigations and reforms as well as the firings of boards and officials. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a longtime member of Investigative Reporters & Editors, and a winner of more than 30 other national awards, including a $500,000 MacArthur “genius” grant.
His memoir for Simon & Schuster, Race Against Time, details how some of the nation’s most notorious murders came to be punished decades later. The New York Times made it an Editors’ Pick, and NPR selected it as a Best Book of the Year.
After working for three decades for the statewide Clarion-Ledger, Mitchell left in 2019 and founded the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit that is raising the next generation of investigative reporters. MCIR is now a part of Mississippi Today, the state's largest newsroom. MCIR is now working with The Times in its investigation into Mississippi sheriffs, and those stories on corruption, violence and sex abuse have appeared on the front page of The Times.
Event venue
Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau Board Room, 399 East Main Street, Tupelo, United States
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