Mississippi Today is pleased to welcome Bobby Caina Calvan as its new senior editor.
In this role, Calvan will lead the Jackson Team, coordinate with other editors on major projects and provide mentoring for early-career journalists. He began work Tuesday.
Bobby Caina Calvan
“Bobby and I were long-distance colleagues when we both worked for The Associated Press, and I have long admired his skills as a reporter and writer,” Mississippi Today Editor in Chief Emily Wagster Pettus said. “He is new to Mississippi, and is intensely interested in the state. He brings strong leadership skills and recognizes the importance of journalism that digs beneath the surface and holds public officials accountable.”
Calvan most recently served as deputy editor for government accountability at The Dallas Morning News. Before that, he was a global news manager at The Associated Press, helping coordinate coverage of major news events around the world. Earlier in his AP career, he covered state government and politics in Florida and Montana and worked as a general assignment reporter in New York.
Calvan grew up on a dairy farm in Hawaii, on the other side of the Koʻolau Mountains from Waikiki. He earned a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
He holds lifetime memberships in the Indigenous Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. He is also a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
