WaPo: “Mississippi Today stunned the journalism world in May when it won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering a $77 million state welfare scandal — a major accomplishment for a news organization founded just seven years ago.
Now staffers at the small nonprofit and its New Orleans-based sister site, Verite, will get another mark of an established newsroom: a union. On Thursday, staffers announced they are organizing through the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians.
It’s the latest evolution for parent company Deep South Today, founded by former NBC News and MSNBC chairman Andy Lack in the latter years of a high-powered journalism career. Lack is a native of New York, but his mother grew up in Mississippi.”