Jackson Free Press
The ''Jackson Free Press'', referred to often as simply "JFP", is a for-profit community magazine available free of charge at various retail establishments in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 2002 and owned by Mississippi native Donna Ladd and au ...
in
Jackson, Mississippi
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, and author of 40 nonfiction books on a variety of computer-related topics. He lives with his partner, journalist and editor
Donna Ladd
Donna K. Ladd (born October 9, 1961) is an American investigative journalist who co-founded the ''Jackson Free Press'', a community magazine,Kuldell, Heather (2007-06-15). "AAN Announces AltWeekly Awards Winners". Association of Alternative Newsme ...
.
Stauffer and Ladd started the
Jackson Free Press
The ''Jackson Free Press'', referred to often as simply "JFP", is a for-profit community magazine available free of charge at various retail establishments in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 2002 and owned by Mississippi native Donna Ladd and au ...
in 2002. They took the name from ''The Mississippi Free Press'', a now-defunct investigative
civil rights
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newspaper from the 1960s. ''The Jackson Free Press'', which is free of charge and is supported entirely by advertising revenue, has a weekly circulation of 17,000. The most recent Media Audit figures indicate an actual readership of approximately 50,000, and its active Web site, which launched on a blogging platform in 2002, receives more than 500,000 page views per month.
In 2006, Stauffer received national attention for leading an effort to fight the efforts of the
Editor & Publisher
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Originally based in New York City, ...
magazine interviewed Stauffer about his efforts and wrote an editorial calling for Gannett to "halt" the TDN distribution scheme, which E&P called a violation of "the First Amendment right to distribute papers without unreasonable interference.
Stauffer, a critic of corporate media, received an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for his media criticism.
Stauffer wrote one of the earliest books on blogging and is now a national consultant for publications seeking to transition to the Internet, speaking at national and state newspaper gatherings, from the
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
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to the
New York Press Association
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The NYPA provides editorial assistance, advice and counsel to its 800 member newspapers, advocates for best journalism practices, provides a libel h ...
.
Stauffer is also a long-time media personality. He was co-host of the Emmy-winning "Disk Doctors" show on Knowledge TV in the 1990s. He was the host of Peak Computing Radio Hour in
Denver, Colorado
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, and is currently the host of Radio JFP on WLEZ-FM in Jackson.Wlez-Fm /ref>