Attorneys for Gannett Louisiana newspapers, including The Daily Advertiser, and several other national media companies, including USA Today and The Associated Press, on Monday filed court documents to open court proceedings in the Jena 6 case.
The lede in Reuben Mees’ assessment of newspaper coverage way back when: “The Hattiesburg American ignored local aspects of the civil rights movement of the 1960s - unless events forced its hand.”
The paper goes on to review another less-than-stellar point in its history: “When Pine Belt residents woke up on this day 81 years ago, the publisher of the Hattiesburg American had made the front page. The headline read: ‘Grand Jury Indicts Harmon on 7 Counts.’”
Leesha Faulkner, an editor at the Daily Journal in Tupelo, has departed for the managing editor’s post in Selma, AL.
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