
Smith v. Byrd
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Feb 29, 2024 |
mississippifreepress.org | Smith v. Byrd |Ashton Pittman |William Pittman
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter could become the latest defendant in former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s ongoing lawsuit against online news publication Mississippi Today. The Republican politician, who led the state from 2012 to 2020, sued the publication last year over since-retracted remarks its CEO, Mary Margaret White, made onstage at a journalism forum in which she claimed he “embezzled” welfare funds.
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