Mississippi Casinos

Students in Kathleen Wickham’s Advanced Reporting class and Brad Schultz’s Television Documentary Reporting class at the University of Mississippi during the Fall 2014 semester took a peek inside how casinos in the state of Mississippi affected the welfare of some of the people and communities in the state.

Cities such as Natchez, Tunica, and Philadelphia were a few of the places where students traveled and conducted in depth sit down interviews with city officials and residents. From those interviews, students were able to work together to collectively produce a full length documentary complete with a web page to present to peers, the Meek School of Journalism, and hopefully, Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

Through their hard work, research and dedication, students discovered that casinos in Mississippi are not what they once were, and set out to find the reason why. They focused on the economic and social effects, history, politics, and casino enforcement among other things to reveal the problems and changes that need to be made within the state of Mississippi concerning casinos.

Continue reading in "Casino Overview"

Image: Screen shot from documentary film, "Casinos in Mississippi: Worth the Gamble?", an African-American player at a slot machine.