We are proud to announce that Anna Wolfe, an editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for Mississippi Today, will join the staff of the newly formed Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center, created in collaboration with The New York Times and Big Local News.
Wolfe joins as an investigative reporter covering Mississippi, beginning March 16. She will remain based in the Mississippi Today newsroom, and her work will be published in Mississippi Today and The Times.
Deep South Today, the nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today, Verite News in New Orleans and The Current in Lafayette, Louisiana, launched the investigative center in January. The center will employ reporters in Louisiana and Mississippi and produce investigative stories on topics and institutions critical to local communities in each state.
The center will operate in collaboration with editors at the Local Investigations Fellowship program at The Times, including Dean Baquet, former executive editor of The Times, who now leads the fellowship program.
Wolfe joined Mississippi Today’s newsroom in 2018 to report on poverty and immediately began spotlighting the state’s failures to serve its most vulnerable residents. Her 2020 joint reporting on Mississippi’s restitution centers, Prisoners for Hire, exposed modern-day debtors prisons and received multiple national awards. Her yearslong investigation into the state’s spending of federal welfare funds led to a 2022 series called The Backchannel, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting and earned her a Livingston Award.
In 2023, Wolfe became the youngest solo winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, one of the nation’s top journalism honors, and only the third two-time winner of the award. In 2024, she was named in TIME100 Next, which recognizes emerging leaders driving change. In 2025, four women who were imprisoned on lengthy sentences for offenses related to their pregnancies were released from prison shortly after Wolfe wrote about the hazy legal theory that landed them there.
A native of Washington State and a 2014 Mississippi State University graduate, Wolfe has spent her entire journalism career in Jackson. Last year, she led the launch of Mississippi Today’s Jackson desk dedicated to telling accountability-focused stories about life in the capital city.
“Anna Wolfe has fundamentally changed Mississippi with her relentless, dogged investigative reporting,” said Adam Ganucheau, Deep South Today’s executive editor and chief content officer. “Her work hasn’t just surfaced problems. It’s also forced accountability at the highest levels and given Mississippians the clear, documented truth they couldn’t get otherwise. In an era of diminished watchdog reporting, particularly in Mississippi, Anna’s commitment to going deeper, staying longer and following the facts wherever they lead has proved exactly why investigative journalism still matters. Every Mississippian is better informed because of her, and we’re so lucky to have her fighting for all of us in this new role.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Anna as the first hire of the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center,” said Chris Davis, deputy editor for the Local Investigations Fellowship. “Our mission is strengthened by her expertise, and readers across Mississippi will be better informed because of her relentless reporting. Her arrival marks the first step in our commitment to building a world-class investigative team in this region.”
By working with The Times to launch and build out a new Investigative Reporting Center, Deep South Today will position an upstart investigative team alongside some of the most prominent editors in the journalism industry. This initiative builds on the success that Mississippi Today already established with The Times and Big Local News. A joint investigation by those organizations about corruption and abuse by Mississippi sheriffs was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting and led to expanded federal investigations and legislative reforms in the state. The Local Investigations Fellowship won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2025 in collaboration with the Baltimore Banner and Big Local News for an investigation into the deadly opioid crisis.
ABOUT DEEP SOUTH TODAY
Deep South Today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today, Verite News and The Current.
Founded in 2016, Mississippi Today is now the largest newsroom in the state, and in 2023 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Verite News launched in 2022 in New Orleans, where it covers inequities facing communities of color. The Current is a nonprofit news organization founded in 2018 serving Lafayette and southern Louisiana.
With its regional scale and scope, Deep South Today is rebuilding and re-energizing local journalism in communities where it had previously eroded, and ensuring its long-term growth and sustainability.
ABOUT THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times Company is a trusted source of quality, independent journalism whose mission is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. With more than 12 million subscribers across a diverse array of print and digital products — from news to cooking to games to sports — The Times is a diversified media company with curious readers, listeners and viewers around the globe.
ABOUT BIG LOCAL NEWS
Launched in 2020 as a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative, Big Local News helps reporters better use data in service of accountability journalism. Big Local News shares data and reporting recipes for journalists to localize stories at biglocalnews.org. It also provides news detection tools that monitor a wide variety of data and information streams. The goal: Make it easier for journalists to find the stories that matter at the local level.
Big Local News regularly supports and mentors journalists in computational methods, including The New York Times’s Investigative Reporting Fellows, and was integrally involved with a collaborative project with The Times and The Baltimore Banner, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting earlier this year.
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