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SIDNEY L. (SID) SALTER
Perspective Editor
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The Clarion-Ledger
Jackson, MS
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PROFILE
Sidney L. (Sid) Salter is Perspective Editor of The Clarion-Ledger and serves as a member of the newspaper's editorial board. He is a member of the Mississippi Press Association's Hall of Fame.
Over the course of a 33-year career in Mississippi journalism, Salter's coverage of state politics, public corruption and his work defending the rights of the mentally ill have won numerous journalism awards. He is a two-time winner of the Mississippi Press Association's J. Oliver Emmerich Editorial Excellence Award as Mississippi's top editorial writer.
In recognition of career public service to rural Mississippians and their interest, the Mississippi Farm Bureau named Salter their 2006 Agriculture Ambassador.
His syndicated political column appears on the editorial pages of 53 Mississippi daily and weekly newspapers. Salter has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox News and National Public Radio as an expert political commentator. His work has been cited in national newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today as well as The National Journal, Sports Illustrated and Roll Call magazines.
In a career that has taken him from covering county boards of supervisors to White House press briefings after the Moscow Summit, Salter has covered both Democratic and Republican national presidential conventions, four executions and interviews with two U.S. presidents and the chancellor of Germany. He has traveled extensively in Germany, Russia, France and Spain, including a visit to East Germany prior to the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Salter, 48, is a native of Philadelphia, Mississippi. He earned a BA degree at Mississippi State University where he was a John C. Stennis Scholar in Political Science. In 2004, he was named MSU's National Alumnus of The Year. A former Ole Miss associate professor of Journalism, he was the university's inaugural Kelly Gene Cook Chair in Journalism.
Salter is a member of the board of directors of Community Bancshares of Mississippi, the Metro Jackson chapter of the American Cancer Society and the Administrative Board of the Forest United Methodist Church. He is a past president of the Mississippi Press Association, the MPA Education Foundation, the Forest Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Forest Rotary Club, where he was named a Paul Harris Fellow. He has served as a member of the boards of directors of the MSU Alumni Association, the Mississippi Economic Council and the Mississippi Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
He and his wife, Leilani, have four grown children and a three-year-old grandson.
