Deep South Today

Warwick Sabin is the inaugural president and CEO for Deep South Today. He served three terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2013-19, and in 2014, he was among 24 national political leaders awarded the Rodel Fellowship by the Aspen Institute for his “outstanding ability to work responsibly across partisan divisions and bring greater civility to public discourse.” Before assuming his position at Deep South Today, Sabin was Chief Strategy Officer at Interfaith America, and previously he was the Executive Director of Strategic Engagement at the Aspen Institute. Earlier he was the Senior Director of U.S. Programs at Winrock International and the founding director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub. From 2008-13 he was the publisher of the Oxford American magazine, and in 2009, he was named to the FOLIO:40, a list of the 40 most influential people in the national magazine industry. Sabjn’s additional professional experience includes serving as director of development for the Clinton Foundation, as well as working on Capitol Hill, at the White House, the U.S. Embassy in London, and at Foreign Affairs magazine. He is a Marshall Scholar and a Truman Scholar, and he holds degrees from Oxford University and the University of Arkansas, where he graduated as valedictorian and was president of the student body.

Mary Margaret White joined the Mississippi Today team in 2017 as marketing and branding director, and held numerous titles before being named CEO in 2020. She oversees the newsroom’s business operations, with a special focus on donor cultivation and philanthropy. She is a 2021 graduate of the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University and a 2020 fellow of the Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator.

Adam Ganucheau oversees the newsroom and was one of the first employees hired at Mississippi Today pre-launch in 2016. For more than four years as a founding reporter and as editor-in-chief since 2020, he has played an integral role in growing the initial editorial vision into one of the largest and most accomplished newsrooms in the state. Adam also has worked as a staff reporter for AL.com, The Birmingham News and The Clarion-Ledger and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

David Francis is the retired Executive Vice President and Publisher of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, working for NOLA Media Group and its predecessor, The Times-Picayune, for more than 24 years. David previously served as a Regional Business Planner and Manager of Financial Operations for Pepsi-Cola and Audit Manager for Deloitte u0026 Touche. He earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees in business administration from Tulane University and is a CPA (inactive status). In addition to the presidency of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation, he is the President of the Institute of Mental Hygiene board. He is currently a board member of Liberty Bank and Trust, LSU Healthcare Network and The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund. Previously, David was president of the boards of the Louisiana Press Association, Louisiana Daily Newspaper Association and, Children’s Bureau of New Orleans and Vice Chair, of Lakefront Management Authority Board of Commissioners He has served on the boards of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana, Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp, New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, the Greater New Orleans Foundation and Board of Advisory for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. During his tenure at The Times-Picayune, the newspaper won four Pulitzer Prizes, including the first in its 176-year history.

Terry Baquet joined Verite News in 2022 after 28 years at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, where he served as Sunday Editor and was the Page 1 Editor during the paper’s Katrina coverage, which won two Pulitzer Prizes in breaking news and public service. In 2012, Terry was named Managing Editor/Director of Print, essentially overseeing all editorial decisions for the newspaper’s print edition as well as supervising the production for four other newspapers in the Advance Publications chain. He has served on the boards of Lede New Orleans and Spaceship Media, and he has been a Pulitzer Prize juror twice, having chaired the jury that decided the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. He is a lifelong New Orleanian who grew up in the 7th Ward and continues to live there today.