J. Edward Owens is the editor of The Jackson Wire, an independent local newsroom covering Jackson, Mississippi: city and county government, the federal courts, development and real estate, and the people who profit from them.

The Wire is AI-assisted and document-driven. Reporting is drafted with the help of automated systems that read court filings, public records, and local coverage; every article is published under the editor's review and responsibility, and corrections run under the editor's name. How that process works, and where it can fail, is described in full on the methodology page.

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