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Keri Mitchell

Dallas
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Covers:  Community assets, civic issues and responses to problems in the South Dallas and West Dallas neighborhoods
Community/civic/solutions journalist. Always looking for a good quote. Exec director @dallasfreepress. Formerly reporter/editor @advocate_ed.

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Keri Mitchell’s Biography

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Keri Mitchell is a community journalist in Dallas, Texas whose nerdy passions include color-coding Excel spreadsheets full of FOIA data and rifling through library archive collections to unearth historical gems. Mostly, though, she loves getting to know people and understanding what they care about.

She recently became the executive director of Dallas Free Press, refocusing Advocate Media's charitable arm as a news nonprofit that launched community journalism efforts in South Dallas and West D…

Keri Mitchell’s Journalist Portfolio

How suburbanites cheat their way into Booker T. Washington

How suburbanites cheat their way into Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, the nationally renowned public magnet sc…

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DISD, The Movie: The plot twists, the players, the money, the drama

DISD, The Movie: The plot twists, the players, the money, the drama

Look past the news of the day and you'll find a story worthy of the big screen. It's an entertaining tragedy …

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40 years of DISD desegregation

40 years of DISD desegregation

Forty years ago, the Dallas Independent School District forcibly desegregated its schools. Many involved in t…

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The leadership of Wilshire Baptist Church knew two things: The vote would be close, and either wa...

The leadership of Wilshire Baptist Church knew two things: The vote would be close, and either wa...

But they believed this was an issue that couldn't be glossed over or kicked down the road any longer. Over th…

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Can the Dallas Arboretum and its neighbors peacefully coexist?

Can the Dallas Arboretum and its neighbors peacefully coexist?

People who lived near White Rock Lake were fed up. The arboretum was supposed to be a nature sanctuary for al…

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The Uninformed Parent Podcast

The Uninformed Parent Podcast

We parents have so many questions. Pressing ones. Silly ones. Ones that keep us up at night. Ones that we're …

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Articles

How firm an unintended foundation: Cornerstone Baptist Church 40 years later

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By Keri Mitchell
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||Categories: Churches, History, South Dallas| News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. The paradox of the Baptist church in South Dallas called “Cornerstone” is that its original building wasn’t supposed to have a foundation. The original Cornerstone Baptist Church building at 2815 Ervay in South Dallas is seen April 23, 2026.
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How firm an unintended foundation: Cornerstone Baptist Church 40 years later

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By Keri Mitchell
| Dallas Free Press Verified
||Categories: Uncategorized| The paradox of the Baptist church in South Dallas called “Cornerstone” is that its original building wasn’t supposed to have a foundation. The original Cornerstone Baptist Church building at 2815 Ervay in South Dallas is seen April 23, 2026. Construction of the church was led by members of East Dallas’ Wilshire Baptist Church in 1986. Photo by Camilo Diaz Jr. Cornerstone’s roots grew out of Second Baptist Church, established in 1888 at Ervay and Corinth.
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Two election days in May: Your guide to Dallas County voting

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By Keri Mitchell
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||Categories: Dallas News, Local Government, South Dallas, West Dallas| This content originally was a newsletter Dallas Free Press emailed to insiders. To become one, sign up here for free. Clara Brown Trimble showed up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center to encourage others to vote.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I worked as a reporter at the Pasadena Citizen, a daily newspaper outside of Houston.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, my mother could type 90+ words a minute and I played with her typewriter as a child — and used Wite-Out!

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means asking questions about the world around us, digging in deep to find the truth, and making sense of that truth for your audience.

Awards

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Hugh Aynesworth Excellence in Journalism

2018 - Finalist, Magazine Feature Reporting
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Hugh Aynesworth Excellence in Journalism

2017 - Finalist, Magazine Investigative Reporting
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Texas Community Newspaper Association

2011 - Best Feature Story

Dallas Bar Association Philbin Awards

2011 - Best Magazine Feature
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