Jerry Mitchell Interview: A Journalist's Persistent Pursuit to Bring Civil Rights-Era Killers to Justice
Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Authors
Jerry Mitchell has been a reporter in Mississippi since 1986. A winner of more than 30 national awards, he was also named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006. Mitchell is the founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. The nonprofit is continuing his work of exposing injustices and raising up a new generation of investigative reporters.