The Southerner

Henry W. Grady High School wins top national press awards

By Kimberly Willis Green Atlanta Public Schools’ Henry W. Grady High School received the 2015 Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s (CSPA) Gold Crown Awards for its publications The Southerner newspaper and Nexus magazine. Both publications were one of 20 nationwide to win a Gold Crown in their respective categories. The Awards Convocation for Scholastic Crown recipients […]

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The Southerner’s Editor-in-Chief Named 2013 Georgia Champion Journalist

The Southerner’s editor-in-chief and Grady High’s valedictorian, Isabelle Taft, is named 2013 Georgia Champion Journalist by the Georgia Scholastic Press Association (GSPA). GSPA considers her to be Georgia’s top high school journalist, and is entering her portfolio into the National Journalism Education Association contest. The staff of The Southerner, Grady High School’s student newspaper, is […]

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Grady’s The Southerner will be inducted in the NSPA Hall of Fame

Grady Journalists garnered many awards at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association Fall National High School Journalism Convention, which was held in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 15-18. The Southerner received a National Pacemaker Award at the NSPA awards ceremony on Nov. 17. This is The Southerner’s eighth Pacemaker Award, widely considered the Pulitzer Prize of […]

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Shaun Kleber is Honored as the 2012 David S. Barr Award Winner

Shaun Kleber, Grady alumnus and 2011-2012 co-managing editor of Grady’s newspaper The Southerner, received the David S. Barr Award at The Newspaper Guild-Communication Workers of American Freedom Fund Award Banquet. Kleber presented a phenomenal speech prior to accepting his award among professional award-winning journalists from The Miami Herald, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. Kleber’s […]

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Grady High reaps more national journalism honors

Grady High‘s Grady News Now (GNN) won the prestigious Pacemaker Award at the 2010 National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) conference in Kansas City, Mo., in November. The award signifies that GNN ranks as one the top five scholastic broadcast programs in the nation. This is GNN’s third Pacemaker Award. GNN also took first place Best […]

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Grady High School wins national student journalism awards

Grady High School students captured several national print and broadcast journalism awards during last weekend’s National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) annual fall conference in Washington, D.C. Grady News Network (GNN) won the 2009 NSPA Broadcast Pacemaker Award, which is considered the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for student journalism. This is GNN’s second Pacemaker Award. GNN […]

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