{"id":116373,"date":"2023-07-28T01:47:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116373"},"modified":"2023-07-28T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T01:47:08","slug":"a-small-news-site-won-a-pulitzer-for-its-brett-favre-scoop-now-its-unionizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116373","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A small news site won a Pulitzer for its Brett Favre scoop. Now it\u2019s unionizing.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2023\/07\/27\/mississippi-today-pulitzer-union-andy-lack\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Mississippi Today stunned the journalism world in May when it\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2023\/05\/08\/anna-wolfe-mississippi-today-pulitzer\/\" target=\"_blank\">won a Pulitzer Prize<\/a>\u00a0for uncovering a $77 million state welfare scandal \u2014 a major accomplishment for a news organization founded just seven years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Mississippi Today stunned the journalism world in May when it\u00a0won a Pulitzer Prize\u00a0for uncovering a $77 million state welfare scandal \u2014 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:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116374,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116373\/revisions\/116374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}