SOUTHERNER

When Midtown, at the time Grady, launched the School of Communications (SOC), or Communication Magnet program in 1981, the Southerner was the foundation upon which the program was built. As the SOC gained popularity and its enrollment grew, many other outstanding programs joined the communications school- broadcast journalism, visual arts, forensics, mock trial, fashion and design to name a few- but the Southerner has remained a standard-bearer of the school's communication pathways throughout its 78 years of publication... The Southerner is dedicated to continuing to serve the Midtown community with thorough, strong journalism... Published without interruption since 1947, the Southerner has always been an essential part of Midtown's campus culture. Even in its first years of publication, the paper earned top evaluation scores from the leading scholastic press associations (The National Scholastic Press Association [NSPA], the Columbia Scholastic Press Association [CSPA] and the..