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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· 3d

Really?? Read the fcking room.

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· 8d

🎉🎉🎉 if there is anything a journalist should want to hear is that their article “really brought it to life”

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· 20d

Our elections this year ride on poll-by-poll integrity. That is where they’re won or lost regardless of how many big candidate checks and candidate questionnaires exist. Journalism should be whole-hog focusing on voting integrity and access as @mississippifreepress.org has done for years.

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· 22d

Whoa, beyond being a warning about regulatory threats to nonprofits, it struck me that this article delineates clearly the threats to local communities of the pick-winners/consolidation pressure that is sweeping nonprofit media from philanthropy world. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/why-an-...

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jul 2

A new pre-celebration badge appeared on @mississippifreepress.org today! Get ready to help us celebrate the 25th (!) anniversary of the Free Press in Mississippi in 2027 for a whole damn year of #FreePress25 revelry and reporting memories! Toss into the tip jar to help us get ready: Mfp.ms/donate

A purple and lavender badge celebrating 25 years of the free Press and Mississippi from 2002 to 2027

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jun 17

Mississippi boy Haley Barbour’s vision and agenda finally coming to fruition. Don’t forget too easily. Read this for the seeds of so much coming to fruition now:

Cover of thin RNC chairman Haley Barbour’s Book, “agenda for America: a republican direction for the future”

Blurb for Haley Barbour’s book saying it proclaimed “the Republican vision for renewed America … detail details the principles that must be held fast as we remake American government…”

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jun 16

THIS by author Steven Thrasher who gets it. Calls for mergers and acquisitions can squish this where it exists in independent journalism: tread carefully.

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jun 13

Yesterday I shared many of my violence/crime/gang etc binders of research with the summer @youthmediaproject.bsky.social team and they loved it! Systemic-solutions editor/former teacher @trjackson.bsky.social was shocked at their excitement over… binders! My response: “analog, baby!” 💅

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jun 4

One more that didn’t fit there:

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jun 4

Oh and don’t forget all the @youthmediaproject.bsky.social honors our teenage reporting team raked in this year too for jxnpulse.com work!

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Jun 4

BIG news for the @mississippifreepress.org and Mississippi! We just learned that every member of our 2025 editorial team is honored in this year’s Society of Professional Journalists Diamond Award! This brings our honors in 2026 to at least 18 including AAN Publisher, NABJ and Nonprofit News Awards🏆

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 24

The things you run into when you’re researching something else in Newspapers.com. 😫

Racist letter responding to John K. Douglass calling for Black equality published in the New York Tribune in October 1906 by a “southern Woman” in East Orange, NJ, about the “negro question in the South.” She has “spent my life in their midst” and Trib readers should act “in the name of women you love”

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 23

Y’all. The filthy rich are so very different from you and me.

CNBC post reading “JP Morgan unveils summer reading list for the wealthy— including books on AI, leadership and lemons”; photo is a grinning redheaded white woman with the dog reading a book

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 19

Cheers to @nickjudin.bsky.social and Kevin Edwards for their NABJ award nomination for their sensitive and careful reporting series on the death of Trey Reed: www.mississippifreepress.org/tag/trey-reed/

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 19

I don’t miss the cost of printing a newspaper, cutting to fit, or the weekly press deadline, but I often pine to print and distribute issues again—and oh those sassy covers! Should we bring back the Free Press in print again in some form?? 🤔

2009 cover of Jackson Free Press wedding with art of then-Gov Haley Barbour and House Speaker BillyMcCoy atop a wedding cake to tease a serious story about the Legislsture debating civil unions

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 17

The truth about “tort reform”! (Goal: defunding Dems.) I’ve been going through 20 years of JFP print papers for archiving. 🗣️ Most stories are now at MFP.ms search. I’m sharing select covers in upcoming weeks, but I suggest reading 🔥 stories on MFP site. www.mississippifreepress.org/hoodwinked-t...

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 8

She’s back

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 7

Y’all, this naive and offensive mess helps nothing.

Bluesky post from a white woman saying that people are “stranded in a state who doesn’t give a crap about them” meaning Mississippi. She then claimed that only white people would want to live here.

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 5

Morning strategy

Pen, journal and “tears of the patriarchy” coffee mug

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 1

Lol. I guess @nickjudin.bsky.social is “etc.” with the listed media all of him knew about this because of his breaking work 🙄 and the tip that came because of all of his impactful immigration, the best in Mississippi.

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· May 1

Look at this 💩:

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Apr 29

Love this. I surround myself with women that I will mention when I’m aware of opportunities.

A red and orange graphic reading “
Surround yourself with women who would mention your name in a room full of opportunities”

Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘@donnerkay· Apr 29

Fascinating and rather blunt juxtaposition by our Mississippi governor. Although I totally get how these two seemingly different things actually intersect. Call it people math.