Adam Ganucheau

Executive Editor & Chief Content Officer, Deep South Today

Adam Ganucheau serves as Deep South Today’s first executive editor and chief content officer, a regional leadership role overseeing the organization’s editorial and content strategy across its growing network of nonprofit newsrooms. He supports the newsgathering efforts of Deep South Today’s three existing outlets — Mississippi Today, Verite News and The Current — and provides essential direction for the launch of new newsrooms across the region.

Adam previously served as editor in chief at Mississippi Today, which under his leadership grew into the largest newsroom in the state and earned a reputation for some of the most impactful investigative reporting in the nation. Under his leadership, the newsroom won one Pulitzer Prize and was named a finalist for a second. It also won two Goldsmith Prizes, a Livingston Award, a Collier Prize and numerous Society of Professional Journalists regional awards. Many of the newsroom’s successes during his tenure came in the face of one of the most aggressive and notable attacks on the free press in modern U.S. history, leading to Mississippi Today’s receipt of the National Press Club’s highest honor for press freedom.