MFDS 17 - Jerry Mitchell
Since 1989, Jerry Mitchell has been an investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. Jerry has unearthed documents, cajoled suspects and witnesses, and quietly pursued evidence in the nation’s notorious killings from the civil rights era. His work has helped put four Klansmen behind bars.
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Since 1989, Jerry Mitchell has been an investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. Jerry has unearthed documents, cajoled suspects and witnesses, and quietly pursued evidence in the nation’s notorious killings from the civil rights era.
His work has helped put four Klansmen behind bars.
For his work, Mitchell has received more than 30 national awards. In 2006, the Pulitzer Board named him a Pulitzer Prize finalist, praising him “for his relentless and masterly stories on the successful prosecution of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964.”
After winning the prestigious George Polk Award for a second time, Mitchell received a MacArthur “genius” grant — only the second investigative reporter to ever receive the $500,000 award.