MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
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Charity Scott joins MLK50 as managing editor
WEB15 hours ago · Before that, she spent over a decade at The Wall Street Journal, most recently as an award-winning corporate reporter. In 2021, she conceived of and co-led the team that developed the Journal’s package commemorating the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, which won a New York Press Club award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.. Scott says MLK50’s “laser focus” on the intersection of ...
Meet the MLK50 team - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
WEBEmail her at adrienne.martin@mlk50.com. Wendi C. Thomas, Investigative Editor & Publisher Emerita: Wendi C. Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in 2017 as a one-year project that grew into a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on poverty, power and public policy in Memphis. Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50 Editor and Publisher.
It’s been 4 years since MLK50 was born; lessons from the founder …
WEBApr 4, 2021 · We’ve forced institutions to change policy and raise workers’ pay.We’ve increased transparency, elevated the civic conversation around wages, rattled the status quo and of course, broken news. And now, we are 4. My initial plan was for MLK50 to be a one-year project that would end April 4, 2018. The headline on our first story: “The case for justice through journalism.”
Micaela Watts, Institute for Public Service Reporting
WEB3 days ago · by Micaela Watts, Institute for Public Service Reporting October 4, 2024. This story has been republished with permission from The Institute for Public Service Reporting. Read the original story here. Emmitt Martin seethed with anger the night he and four other Memphis Police Department officers allegedly beat Tyre Nichols to death.
MLK50 founder wins national journalism independence award
WEBApr 11, 2023 · The honor is given annually by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism ’s founding editor Wendi C. Thomas has been selected as winner of the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. MLK50 focuses on poverty, power and a range of public policy issues that affect local residents.
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WEBMLK50 and its journalists continue to garner recognition for work that makes a meaningful, tangible difference in people’s lives. We are – as Dr. King was – committed to economic justice both in our journalism and in our employment practices. We’re aligned with the people he would have been aligned with had he not been assassinated more ...
MLK50 receives $1 million grant from MacArthur Foundation
WEBAug 5, 2024 · MLK50: Justice Through Journalism has been awarded a three-year, $1 million general operating grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to increase its editorial, operational and business strength and capacity. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “supports creative people, effective institutions, and ...
Tyre Nichols’ family looks ahead to the state’s criminal case and …
WEB1 day ago · Tadarrius Bean (center) walks into the federal court building on Sept. 26. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50. Two of the former officers that stood trial – Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith – were only convicted of witness tampering for trying to cover-up the beating; they both were acquitted on the more serious civil rights charges.
MLK50 receives $200K grant from Jonathan Logan Family …
WEBJan 24, 2024 · MLK50: Justice Through Journalism has been awarded a two-year, $200,000 general operating grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.. The investment will be used to support MLK50’s reporting and editing so our newsroom can continue to make a measurable, tangible difference in the lives of Memphians.