MPA/MPS Press Releases

For its 40 years of community leadership, especially on civil rights and reconciliation, The Neshoba Democrat is this year’s winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.

The Institute established the award to honor the couple who have published The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky., for more than 51 years. The Gishes were the first recipients of the award.

The award was presented by Al Cross, executive director of the Institute for Rural Journalism, during the MPA President’s Banquet last Friday in Biloxi. It was accepted by Stanley Dearman (above), longtime Democrat publisher and owner, and his successor, James E. Prince.

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