Keri Mitchell
As seen in:
Dallas Free Press,
The Dallas Morning News,
Texas Monthly,
The Advocate Magazine,
Advocate OAK CLIFF,
Lake Highlands Advocate Mag,
Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate Mag,
Oakcliff Advocate Mag,
Preston Hollow Advocate Mag,
Dallas Weekly,
Garland Journal
and
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
Read Full Bio →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
The leadership of Wilshire Baptist Church knew two things: The vote would be close, and either wa...
Interview
See all 11 answers →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.