R.L. Nave

Ryan L. Nave is Mississippi Today's editor-in-chief. One of the original team members, he previously served as news editor and a staff reporter. Before joining Mississippi Today, he was an editor and reporter at the Jackson Free Press. Until 2011, he was a freelance journalist in Albuquerque, N.M., Boulder, Colo., and Seattle covering environmental-business issues. Prior to that, he covered local and state government and Barack Obama’s presidential campaign for the Illinois Times. Nave was a 2010-2011 Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow at the University of Colorado-Boulder and a 2004 Academy for Alternative Journalism fellow at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. A native of University City, Mo., he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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