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Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin’s exit caused hard feelings around the university and the state of Mississippi. Terry Mattingly, a member of the Overby Center panel of experts, comments on a recent article by Baptist Press that uses Kiffin’s leaving for advice to pastors.
The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics will present a program on Soggy Sweat’s iconic Whiskey Speech on Wednesday, March 25. The program will feature a screening of a documentary film on the speech followed by a discussion of the historical context and importance of the speech. Cosponsors for the event are the University of Mississippi School of Law, the Mississippi Judicial College, and the Lafayette County Bar Association.
Jared Schroeder, an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, discusses some lawmakers have proposed bills to support local journalism. He and Zivile Raskauskaite, a doctoral candidate, created the new resource that tracks legislative efforts to support local journalism, which is hosted by the Reynolds Journalism Institute.