Veteran Journalist Tells Florida Students to ‘Find the Truth to Get Justice’

Jerry Mitchell at his desk at the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. on September 16, 2009. Photo courtesy of MacArthur Foundation, Sept. 2019

PUNTA GORDA, Florida–Florida Gulf Coast University journalism students got a glimpse of what it is like to be an investigative reporter on Feb. 16, as they sat listening intently to a 30-year news veteran tell of his experiences while reinforcing the need for investigative journalists.

Journalist Jerry Mitchell spent three decades as an investigative reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., dedicating his work to “report the truth.”