Mississippi Today, The New Times and Reveal are winners of the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Medal for Outstanding Crime Reporting for the team’s investigation of scandals at the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.
Honored were Mukta Joshi, Jerry Mitchell, Brian Howey, Nate Rosenfield and Steph Quinn with Mississippi Today, Sarah Cohen with The Times and Najib Aminy at Reveal, a nationally syndicated weekly investigative radio show.
The team was cited for its investigation of the department’s use of the so-called “Blue Wave” of jail trusties as enforcers in the county jail and for Sheriff Bryan Bailey’s use of deputies, trusties and county equipment at his mother’s chicken farm…