''The Reflector'' is the

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Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...

. The Reflector was established in 1884 as ''The Dialective Reflector'', and its name was changed to ''The Reflector'' in 1889. During

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, the newspaper was published under the name ''Maroon and White'' and operated only by the faculty between 1944 to 1945. The newspaper continues to remain today as the oldest college newspaper in the SEC (Southeastern Conference).

History

The newspaper was first published as ''The Dialective Reflector'' between 1884 to 1889 before its name being shortened to ''The Reflector''. It had subsequently published under its current name except for a brief period between 1944 to 1945 when it was operated by faculty and was named ''Maroon and White'' during

. Following the war, the newspaper resumed publication under its previous name ''The Reflector''. It continues to this day as the oldest running college newspaper in the SEC. In 2003, the office complex housing the student publications was renamed to Henry F. Meyer Student Media Center in the honor of former university newspaper advisor Henry F. Meyer.

Website

The Reflector On-Line was created in December 1996. The original web URL was www.reflector.msstate.edu ''The Reflector'' launched their non-edu website on February 02nd, 2001, swapping to the www.reflector-online.com domain. While operating, the Reflector website has gathered various awards and honors from statewide, regional and national outlets. It received two national NBS Aehro awards (2020 and 2021) while managed by Brandon Grisham, the former Online editor. It received finalist recognition in 2022 while manged by Joshua Britt. Grisham's archival work led to the creation of the Digital Issue Collection and the GAP (Grisham Archival Project, created with resources collected through the Mitchell Memorial Library). Both projects offered digital articles and e-editions of older published materials. The current website offers access to images, online e-editions, news articles, and podcasts.

Links

The Reflector website maintains links to various projects, collections and pages that are no-longer accessible (following a redesign). They are still hosted and available using the items below: - 2016 to 2017 Graphics - 2017 to 2018 Graphics - 2018 to 2019 Graphics - 2019 to 2020 Graphics - 2019 Editorial Staff - The Multimedia Page - Lab Rats Comedy (Coverage Collection) - Theatre MSU (Coverage Collection)

References

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