Two century-old weekly newspapers in Mississippi closed their doors in late June. The Jasper County News and the Smith County Reformer, owned by Buckley Newspapers Inc., closed for financial reasons.

One century-old weekly newspaper in Mississippi is set to close its doors by the end of July, shortly after two other newspapers confirmed to the Clarion Ledger their closures. The Leland Progress in ...

COLUMBUS, Miss. — In a roughly 150-square-foot room on the second floor of The Commercial Dispatch, the newspaper of record for Columbus and surrounding Lowndes County, Mississippi, are large, heavy ...

A Mississippi newspaper scared NFL fans when it published a random story with an obituary-like headline on former NFL quarterback Archie Manning on Tuesday. The Clarion-Ledger, the second-oldest ...

A Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to take down an editorial criticizing its mayor and city council Tuesday, in a move that has alarmed free-speech advocates across the country and ...

A newspaper that has served Jackson County since the 1960s will soon no longer publish a printed edition. Instead, the owners of the Mississippi Press say they will focus on the digital delivery of ...

A Mississippi judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order requested by the City of Clarksdale requiring a local newspaper to remove a critical editorial from its website, a move that alarmed ...

A Mississippi court has ordered a local newspaper to remove an editorial critical of public officials, raising a clear First Amendment issue. Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin, of the Chancery Court of ...

In April 2025, a Reddit user on the r/todayilearned (TIL) subreddit claimed that officials in Mississippi — a U.S. state with a long history of civil and racial injustice — once refused to broadcast ...