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Overview
The Clarion Ledger in Jackson is Mississippi's largest newspaper by circulation and the main paper for the Capitol and the Hinds County courts. The Sun Herald in Biloxi covers the Gulf Coast, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo covers the northeast, the Hattiesburg American, the Vicksburg Post, the Meridian Star, the Commercial Dispatch in Columbus, the Greenwood Commonwealth, the Natchez Democrat and the DeSoto Times-Tribune cover their regions, and Mississippi Today covers state government online with a Pulitzer winning record.
Mississippi newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 82 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the chancery and circuit clerks, since Mississippi has no full statewide court case search.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Mississippi Newspapers
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Major Mississippi newspapers and what they cover
The Clarion Ledger covers Jackson, state government, the Mississippi Supreme Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1830s onward in the digital archives. The Sun Herald covers Harrison, Jackson and Hancock counties and the casinos, and the Daily Journal covers Tupelo and sixteen surrounding counties with one of the largest community newsrooms in the South. County weeklies such as the Neshoba Democrat, the Yazoo Herald and the Lawrence County Press carry board of supervisors minutes, sheriff's reports and chancery court notices.
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Historic Mississippi newspapers online
The Mississippi Digital Library offers free digitized Mississippi newspapers and historical collections from libraries across the state, and Mississippi titles appear in Chronicling America through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The Department's library in Jackson holds newspaper microfilm for every county, and the Jackson-Hinds Library System provides free access to the Clarion Ledger archive with a library card. The University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University libraries hold regional titles.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Mississippi
Mississippi law requires trustee's sale notices for foreclosures, notices to creditors in estates, name changes, tax sales and board of supervisors and municipal proceedings to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the Mississippi Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Most papers in Mississippi, daily and weekly, carry obituaries, and the Department of Archives and History keeps an obituary index. Court coverage matters because Mississippi's chancery and circuit court records live with each county clerk.
- Mississippi public noticesStatewide search of legal notices published in Mississippi newspapers
- Mississippi Court RecordsCircuit and chancery court case searches by county
- Mississippi Vital RecordsBirth, death and marriage certificates
- Mississippi Genealogy SearchArchives, census and family history sources
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Straight answers
Mississippi Newspaper Directory, questions
What is Mississippi's largest newspaper by circulation?
The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, followed by the Sun Herald in Biloxi, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo, the Hattiesburg American and the Vicksburg Post. Mississippi Today covers state government online.
Where are historic Mississippi newspapers online?
The Mississippi Digital Library offers free digitized titles, Chronicling America adds more, and the Department of Archives and History holds every county on microfilm.
Where are Mississippi foreclosure notices published?
Trustee's sale notices run in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the Mississippi Press Association's statewide public notice search.