Director, Deep South Today Studios

Overview

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• Position: Director of Deep South Today Studios
• Reports to: Executive Editor and Chief Content Officer
• Location: Remote (Deep South strongly preferred)

### About Deep South Today

Deep South Today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today, Verite News, The Current and, later in 2026, Arkansas Today.

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. Next up is Arkansas, where the launch of Arkansas Today represents an exciting new chapter in that mission.

### About Deep South Today Studios

Deep South Today received a generous $3 million commitment from Andrew Lack to establish Deep South Today Studios and build out video journalism capacity across our network. This is one of the most significant gifts in the organization’s history, and it reflects a shared conviction that the Deep South is one of the most important and underleveraged regions in American journalism. We have the stories, and we have proven we can write them better than anyone. This investment gives us the tools to tell them on video, at scale, with the depth and rigor they deserve.

At the heart of this plan is investigative video storytelling. The Deep South has long been a region where critical stories go untold or undertold — stories about power, accountability, poverty, environmental justice and democracy. Video journalism, done with the seriousness of purpose that defines our network’s print and digital work, is an op