Mary Margaret White

Mary Margaret White is the CEO and Executive Director of Mississippi Today, the state’s flagship nonprofit newsroom and the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. She joined the organization in 2017, just one year after its launch, and was appointed CEO in 2020. Under her leadership, Mississippi Today has become a national model for nonprofit journalism and the anchor for a growing network of independent, nonprofit newsrooms across the region. Mary Margaret is a 2021 graduate of the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University and a 2020 fellow of the Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator. She earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Mississippi and an M.A. in Southern Studies from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, where she now serves as an adviser.

About Mississippi Today

Founded in 2016 as a statehouse watchdog, Pulitzer Prize–winning Mississippi Today has expanded from its roots in Capitol coverage to become one of the most comprehensive newsrooms in Mississippi, covering education, public health, criminal justice, and the environment while also providing in-depth investigative reporting. Now the largest newsroom in the state, Mississippi Today demonstrates that free, nonpartisan journalism is essential to a healthy democracy and government accountability. Guided by its tagline “We report to you," Mississippi Today is committed to serving communities across the state and meeting their information needs with accuracy, independence, and purpose.