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Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Mississippi ’s welfare fraud scandal.
She and her editor have been hit with a court order requiring them to turn over confidential sources.
They say the order is a threat to journalism that they will resist.
Mississippi Today , the nonprofit organization that employs Wolfe and Ganucheau , is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn the order.
Former Gov. Phil Bryant says he played no role in directing the money.
Bryant has never been charged, let alone convicted, in a welfare fraud scandal.
Mississippi Today CEO Mary Margaret White mischaracterized the reporting at a journalism conference in Miami in February 2023 .
Quin says the paper has no evidence Bryant embezzled $77 million and the criminal authorities aren't doing anything.
So it definitely impacts my day-to-day.” And Wolfe said it’s not clear more money is getting to Mississippi ’s poorest. According to state figures, as of June , 1,423 families and 2,522 individuals are receiving federal welfare grants administered by Mississippi , a state where 548,000 people live in poverty..
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