Two century-old weekly newspapers in Mississippi closed their doors in late June. The Jasper County News and the Smith County Reformer, owned by Buckley Newspapers Inc., closed for financial reasons.

COLUMBUS, Miss. — In a roughly 150-square-foot room on the second floor of The Commercial Dispatch, the newspaper of record for Columbus and surrounding Lowndes County, Mississippi, are large, heavy ...

One century-old weekly newspaper in Mississippi is set to close its doors by the end of July, shortly after two other newspapers confirmed to the Clarion Ledger their closures. The Leland Progress in ...

The publisher of two historic newspapers that went out of business last week was sentenced to prison just weeks before for receiving convictions for sex crimes involving a minor. Zachary Wes Buckley, ...

A Mississippi newspaper scared NFL fans when it published a random story with an obituary-like headline on former NFL quarterback Archie Manning on Tuesday. The Clarion-Ledger, the second-oldest ...

A Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to take down an editorial criticizing its mayor and city council Tuesday, in a move that has alarmed free-speech advocates across the country and ...

A newspaper that has served Jackson County since the 1960s will soon no longer publish a printed edition. Instead, the owners of the Mississippi Press say they will focus on the digital delivery of ...

A Mississippi judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor and city leaders after the officials sued, sparking complaints from press advocates that it violates the First ...

In April 2025, a Reddit user on the r/todayilearned (TIL) subreddit claimed that officials in Mississippi — a U.S. state with a long history of civil and racial injustice — once refused to broadcast ...