Todd Stauffer is co-founder and publisher of the

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, and author of 40 nonfiction books on a variety of computer-related topics. He lives with his partner, journalist and editor Donna Ladd. Stauffer and Ladd started the

in 2002. They took the name from ''The Mississippi Free Press'', a now-defunct investigative

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newspaper from the 1960s. ''The Jackson Free Press'', which is free of charge and is supported entirely by advertising revenue, has a weekly circulation of 17,000. The most recent Media Audit figures indicate an actual readership of approximately 50,000, and its active Web site, which launched on a blogging platform in 2002, receives more than 500,000 page views per month. In 2006, Stauffer received national attention for leading an effort to fight the efforts of the

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to control the distribution of locally owned publications in Mississippi. Stauffer became president of a new alliance to counter Gannett's efforts, called the Mississippi Independent Publisher's Association.

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magazine interviewed Stauffer about his efforts and wrote an editorial calling for Gannett to "halt" the TDN distribution scheme, which E&P called a violation of "the First Amendment right to distribute papers without unreasonable interference. Stauffer, a critic of corporate media, received an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for his media criticism. Stauffer wrote one of the earliest books on blogging and is now a national consultant for publications seeking to transition to the Internet, speaking at national and state newspaper gatherings, from the

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to the

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. Stauffer is also a long-time media personality. He was co-host of the Emmy-winning "Disk Doctors" show on Knowledge TV in the 1990s. He was the host of Peak Computing Radio Hour in

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, and is currently the host of Radio JFP on WLEZ-FM in Jackson.Wlez-Fm
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