From The Clarion-Ledger: With the death of Jackson Advocate publisher Charles Tisdale on July 7, his widow will now put out their weekly black newspaper without her life partner, raising speculation that some of the fight may have gone out of Mississippi’s oldest black-owned newspaper - and out of the state’s black press in general.
The Clarion-Ledger’s David Hampton reflects on the careers of Bob Gordon and Charles Tisdale, two longtime Mississippi newspapermen who have died in recent days.
The Picayune Item’s Will Sullivan on the passing of two very classy ladies: Pat Fordice and Lady Bird Johnson. Plus: Taking David Vitter to task for a lack of class.
The Delta Democrat Times publisher John Clark recently toured the site of a new biodiesel refinery in Greenville and was impressed with what he saw.
The lake at Presley’s Outing in Jackson County is closed until late next week while state environmental and health agencies test the waters as a possible source of a bacterial infection that has struck at least three people.
A Mississippi Press reporter and photographer were denied access by park owner J.P. Presley who, not surprisingly, had no comment.
The Daily Journal in Tupelo declares itself northeast Mississippi’s paper of record and vows to crank up the coverage of politics leading to the August primary and November general election.
From The Washington Post: Simeon Booker was at Ole Miss (the year James Meredith was admitted to the university as its first black student). He knew the dark, kaleidoscopic danger of the place. He had been in Mississippi — at that courthouse in Sumner to cover the Emmett Till murder trial. Till — a 14-year-old black youth murdered by two white men in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a woman who was married to one of the men — was Booker’s damn story, and he knew it, his fingerprints on the reporting of it from the very beginning. They all knew it, every one of the reporters, the ones from the white press and certainly the ones from the Negro press.
From The Los Angeles Times: Charles Tisdale purchased an innocuous, nearly defunct weekly newspaper in 1978, transformed it into a strident voice for African Americans and poor whites in Mississippi, then endured the wrath of those who wanted to silence the paper — and him.
Doug Marlette, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, was killed in a car crash near Holly Springs Thursday. The editorial cartoonist for the Tulsa World was on his way to a high school theatre workshop in Oxford when the accident occurred. Marlette, who lived for a time in Laurel as a child, is the second Pulitzer-winner with Mississippi ties to die in an automobile crash in the span of a few months. Author and reporter David Halberstam, who lived and worked in West Point for about a year in the 1950s, was killed in a San Francisco accident in April.
The Tulsa World has a dedicated page on Marlette, including a slide show and 2006 profile.
Jack Tannehill, publisher and editor of the Union Appeal, reminisces in a recent column about the ‘82 convention and a rare joint appearance by Sen. John Stennis and his young upstart opponent, Haley Barbour. Seems Stennis took the lecturn and wouldn’t turn loose.
Charles Tisdale, owner and publisher of the Jackson Advocate and a civil rights leader, died Saturday at age 80.
Check out the photo album from this year’s convention…Wyatt Emmerich, publisher of The Northside Sun, pontificates changes at the Beau Rivage and along the coast since Katrina…Clarion-Ledger editorial director David Hampton declares the recent Gubernatorial Press Conference a “bust“…Birney Imes of the Commercial Dispatch details the long, winding road home from convention.
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