News organizations have been trumpeting partnerships with AI firms, but they should be entering such arrangements with caution. Jared Schroeder of the University of Missouri and a member of the Overby Center panel of experts writes that such partnerships could damage journalism in the long run.

Professor Charles Mitchell of the University of Mississippi writes that the Trump administration’s agenda for universities would undermine their historic independence and research ability.  

Retired Houston Chronicle executive editor Steve Riley, writing for the Overby Center,  relates a typical encounter on social media that speaks to the problem of our political dialogue.

The Department of Education is comparable to a forest, funding dozens of programs in all states and territories and issuing edicts forcing local schools to spend lots of cash on filing compliance forms.

Mississippi has been pro-active in beginning and maintaining a variety of activities that benefit scholastic journalism students.

A state judge in Mississippi has withdrawn her order that a newspaper in Clarksdale, Miss., must take down an editorial criticizing local officials for not providing notice of a meeting to consider a tax increase.

The use of executive orders to make law has increased rapidly in the last 50 years, and for various reasons.

The U.S. government put forward a case that was basically a ruse, and the justices fell for it, banning a specific communicator for the first time.

His music about the struggle for freedom became a powerful symbol of the times, especially in the South.

Since 1964, defamation law has provided strong protections for ensuring a “profound national commitment” to debate on public issues.

Despite challenges over budgets and freedom of speech, high school journalism is thriving in Mississippi.

Tony Pederson, managing fellow of the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, discusses the presidency of Jimmy Carter.