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When 200,000 people marched on Washington in 1963 to urge "jobs and freedom" for blacks, the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger noted the rally dryly but reported the litter-clearance effort the next day under the headline: WASHINGTON IS CLEAN AGAIN WITH NEGRO TRASH REMOVED. Times have changed in Mississippi-and at the 146-year-old Clarion-Ledger. The state-capital paper, whose modest daily circulation of 70,000 is Mississippi's largest, crusades against corruption and police brutality toward poor blacks. Last week the paper's campaign for reform of the state's allegedly inadequate, segregation...
...Clarion-Ledger gave the eight-part education series an investment impressive even by the standards of bigger papers: Reporters Fred Anklam Jr., 28, and Nancy Weaver, 29, crisscrossed the state for four months, arriving unannounced in 40 of the 153 local school districts. Says Anklam: "We tried to catch people unawares." In 51 news stories and 27 editorials, timed to influence a December special session of the legislature, the Clarion-Ledger contended: "Mississippi public schools aren't making the grade." Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average...
Lawmakers who opposed the paper's call for change were cited in Clarion-Ledger editorials under the designation "Hall of Shame." Legislators protested the unaccustomed pressure, but at the urging of Governor William Winter, as well as the paper, they enacted new school taxes, across-the-board teacher pay raises, reading aid, a stronger compulsory-attendance law and state support for kindergartens. Said Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Charles Overby, 36: "Pulitzers have come to Mississippi before, some for reporting about things the state failed to do. This one is for what Mississippi...
Last year, after Hederman left, the family sold the Clarion-Ledger and its evening sister paper, the Jackson Daily News (circ. 40,000), to the Gannett Co. the nation's biggest (87 dailies) newspaper chain. But Hederman's goal of improvement survived. The paper opened bureaus in three Mississippi cities and began to send reporters to cover stories throughout the South. Says Managing Editor Rober Gordon: "We are a good newspaper trying to get better...
...team upped its overall mark to 9-1-1, and its 1-0-1 EIBL slate is the only spotless ledger in the league. Navy--now 19-6-2 overall, 7-2-1 in league play--split a doubleheader with Yale last week. The Elis and the Midshipmen were preseason picks to battle the Crimson for the league title...