The New York Times is working with Deep South Today, a nonprofit network of local newsrooms, to create a regional investigative reporting center. 

The nonprofit group, which publishes Mississippi Today, Verite News in New Orleans and the Current in Lafayette, Louisiana, will develop the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center with the New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship.

The Times fellowship is providing substantial resources. The project will be managed by Chris Davis, deputy editor. All stories will be co-published by the Times and Deep South Today newsrooms. This content will also be available to local news organizations for co-publication. 

The Times is also ending staff time to help Deep South Today recruit, hire and train editors and reporters for the Investigative Reporting Center, and it will also edit stories. 

“We developed Deep South Today to provide the infrastructure to sustain and grow local journalism in a region that is under-resourced and underserved, and this critically important initiative will advance our mission,” says Warwick Sabin, president and chief executive of Deep South Today,” in a statement.