Coach Deion Sanders Demands Saban-Like Respect, Walks Out of SWAC Media Day
On 7/20/21 at 11:25 PM EDT
Former college and NFL star Deion Sanders has coached just seven games in his college coaching career, but he let media know Tuesday that he should be respected like somebody who has won seven national championships.
Sanders, who s the head football coach at Jackson State University, walked out of the Southwestern Athletic Conference Media Days after he was addressed as Deion for a second time rather than Coach or Coach Sanders or anything other than his first name.
Head Coach Deion Sanders talk with his quarterback Jalon Jones #4 of the Jackson State Tigers during a time out during the game against the Alabama State Hornets at New ASU Stadium on March 20, 2021 in Montgomery, Alabama. Alabama State Hornets defeated the Jackson State Tigers, 35-28.
More than 130 years after Mississippi imposed a poll tax and literacy test to keep Blacks from voting, President Biden others warn that Jim Crow-style disenfranchisement is resurfacing in efforts by Georgia, Texas and other states to restrict voting.
Honored for our investigations into violence and dysfunction in the Mississippi prison system. By The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting on Tuesday night for our series on one of the most dangerous and dysfunctional penal systems in the country. The $25,000 award, which honors the best in public interest journalism, will be split among reporting teams at The Marshall Project and Mississippi Today, who led the investigations. The work also appeared in the Jackson Clarion Ledger, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, and the USA Today Network.
The judging committee cited “outstanding, deeply reported, data-backed storytelling, and the direct impact this series is having on public policy reforms in Mississippi.” They honored the way reporters made policy failures real to readers by telling specific stories of individuals within the penal system. “These stories gave faces and names
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to present the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to “Mississippi’s Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System” by Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Anna Wolfe, and Michelle Liu of The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, and the USA TODAY Network. The project investigated why the state is home to America’s most dangerous and antiquated penal system.
The Goldsmith Prize, founded in 1991 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an impact on local, state, or federal public policy or the practice of politics in the United States. Finalists receive $10,000, and the winner receives $25,000. All prize monies go to the journalist or team that produced the reporting.
Tampa Bay Times reporting about Pasco Sheriffâs program earns national recognition
The series exposed a police intelligence operation that targeted residents and school children based on their potential to commit crimes.
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Tampa Bay Times investigative reporters Neil Bedi, left, and Kathleen McGrory have garnered national recognition for their series examining the Pasco County Sheriff s Office. (Boyzell Hosey | Times)
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Tampa Bay Times project that examined a Pasco County police intelligence program is a finalist for two prestigious national journalism prizes.
The series âTargetedâ by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi was named a finalist Tuesday for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting at Harvard University. The prize is administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.