Ellen B. Meacham
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Ellen B. Meacham

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Ellen Meacham is a Tennessee native, a longtime resident of Mississippi, and a career journalist and journalism instructor at her alma mater, the University of Mississippi. She is the author of “Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi” and has been a working journalist for more than two decades. She is a member of the faculty in the University of Mississippi’s journalism school, where she teaches news reporting and editing. Meacham is uniquely positioned to write about the South and Mississippi. She is a former fellow with the American Association of Newspaper Editors, selected as one of only 20 journalism professors in the nation. Her experience as a newspaper reporter has given her extensive contacts within the state’s political and journalistic circles. In addition, her master’s degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi supports her understanding of the culture and the people of the South and the Mississippi Delta. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today Online, The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee and The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La., She has been featured on Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal, on OS Radio on BBC World Service, The Green Room on Newstalk Ireland, and on numerous other public radio shows. She lives in the tiny town of Taylor, outside of Oxford, Mississippi, with her family, where she is a member of the town’s board of aldermen.
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