NEW: A federal judge has blocked Mississippi's new anti-"ballot harvesting law," which would have made it a crime for people to help disabled neighbors vote by collecting and mailing their absentee ballots. The punishment included up to a year in jail. mississippifreepress.org/35012/disabled…

SPJ is deeply concerned about the raid on the Marion County Record. SPJ is offering help covering up to $20,000 in legal fees for the newsroom, and condemns this brazen action taken by law enforcement to stop the flow of information. spj.org/news.asp?ref=2…

Trial to begin for 2 white #Mississippi men charged with shooting at Black FedEx driver (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/3bafbf…

Everyone involved in this newspaper raid is going to regret awakening the interest of journalists in Marion County affairs

sorry if this makes me a loser but this is genuinely depressing to me. online anthropology is being destroyed each and every day all because some billionaire is upset that he isn’t getting high enough post engagement

Social media: it's just a tropical storm The South: them bitches got a mind of their own. Social media: people are alarmists The South: weather will beat your ass Social media: people are scared from their phones The South: a hurricane hit my state and brought tornadoes with it

At least 9 precincts in Hinds County—Mississippi's most populous county and the home of the 83%-Black capital city of Jackson—have run out of ballots in the statewide election. The polls are set to close at 7 p.m., but court orders could keep them open.

SPJ-NE is excited to announce that Lesley Visser, one of the best sports journalists of all-time and a pioneer for women in the industry, will be the keynote speaker at our Region 1 conference on April 19-20 at Emerson College Emerson Journalism Register now! eventbrite.com/e/society-of-p…

one of my fave Q&As is now online, in which Leonard Levin, 92 years old, speaks with Stella Lorence about his journalism career. this included turning down NYT to stay Providence Journal and his volunteering SPJ New England. more from Society of Professional Journalists's magazine: thedesignhornet.com/books/udzw/#p=7

34 million. That’s how many people have viewed the video of a white Ole Miss frat student making monkey noises at a black woman during a Pro-Palestinian protest on the Oxford campus this week.

NEW: As students protested for Palestine, the ghosts of the University of Mississippi's past rose again. Stacey J. Spiehler reports on the Ole Miss protests, including an interview with the Black woman targeted with racist epithets and monkey sounds. mississippifreepress.org/41910/as-stude…

I’m teaching Kendrick’s investigative reporting skills and writing investigations as narratives in my reporting class at Howard next semester. 1) Paper trails 2) Backgrounding 3) How to get sources to leak to you 4) Story structure It’s all there. Daaaammmnnn.

We're encouraging the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation to give its grant funding to chapters and regions this year. Giving tens of thousands of dollars to outside groups is an insult to the organization's volunteers who work hard to create programing and recruit members. Do better!