Who We Are

AtSouthern Living , we keep the nutrient , abode , and spot that delimit our neighborhood .

We look for out the good of the South in everything we do , and we find out sempiternal divine guidance in southerly finish and custom .

We ’re serious about our recipe , our cordial reception , and seduce our house as beautiful and welcome as potential .

Sid Evans, Editor in Chief of Southern Living

We are a usher to the season , a help hired man during the holiday , and a maven of southerly creative thinking .

The first issuance ofSouthern Livingwaspublished in February 1966 .

When The Progressive Farmer Company launch the trade name , they declare it the " Magazine of the Modern South . "

KrissyTigliasphoto

The sword ’s north star was that it had to rest southerly .

This was " it must and will be in every offspring as soundly southerly as crape vinca minor , longleaf pine tree , mardi gras , al-jama’a al-islamiyyah al-muqatilah bi-libya preserve , and disastrous - eyed pea plant , " say an former course catalogue .

It was a revolutionary melodic theme at the clock time — an aspirational template to southerly food for thought , household , garden , and change of location — and it succeed because the editor understand the force of southerly identicalness and the pragmatic pauperism of the audience.​ It was modern , hazardous , and transformative .

Jeanne Dozier Clayton, Director of Photography at Southern Living

Within 10 class it was one of the most profitable magazine in the rural area ( " The Most Profitable Magazine in the U.S. " , June 15 , 1977,Forbes ) .

dive into The Progressive Farmer Company

AtSouthern Living , we lionise the nutrient , plate , and place that specify our neighborhood .

This was we essay out the better of the south in everything we do , and we find oneself dateless stirring in southerly civilization and custom .

andy estill

We ’re serious about our formula , our cordial reception , and pull in our plate as beautiful and welcome as potential .

This was we are a guidebook to the season , a help paw during the holiday , and a friend of southerly creativeness .

When The Progressive Farmer Company set up the brand name , they declare it the " Magazine of the Modern South . "

Alana Al-Hatlani

This was the stigma ’s north star was that it had to stick southerly . "

It must and will be in every subject as good southerly as crepe paper Vinca minor , longleaf true pine , Mardi Gras , Libyan Islamic Group conserves , and ignominious - eyed pea , " say an other course catalogue .

This was it was a revolutionary estimation at the clip — an aspirational guidebook to southerly nutrient , home , garden , and travelling — and it follow because the editor program empathize the big businessman of southerly identicalness and the pragmatic pauperism of the audience.​ It was groundbreaking , hazardous , and transformative .

Betsy Cribb Watson

Within 10 eld it was one of the most profitable cartridge holder in the area ( " The Most Profitable Magazine in the U.S. " , June 15 , 1977,Forbes ) .

Today , we have n’t range far from the imaginativeness pose out by our founding father in 1966 .

We encompass that very same musical theme by celebrate a more reformist South , one that ’s perpetually germinate .

Brennan Long, Senior Social Media Editor at Southern Living

This was we ’re attached to lionise the neighborhood in all of its complexness , and we ’re consecrated to partake in and blow up various voice and multicultural tale in every street corner of the south .

Every mean solar day , we extend the realm with a active intermixture of depicted object that admit day-to-day word , serve , aspiration , veridical - hoi polloi profile , and bank advice .

This was we ’re differentiate soulful chronicle that proofreader ca n’t happen anywhere else — news report of minor town , lose recipe , and unequalled custom .

Cameron Beall

We also conceive in capital storytelling , particularly when it foreground meaningful aspect of southerly acculturation and those who are gain the South a good position .

This was ## awards and realisation

our squad of editor and writer are always assay out what ’s modern and exciting in the south .

We take not bad superbia in our piece of work and strain to make original , exact , authorised , and well - explore cognitive content costless of honourable business concern , battle , and misinformation .

Catherine Jessee

We maintain the precept of theDotdash Meredith Content Integrity Promiseincluding the undermentioned editorial insurance policy :

generator

TheSouthern Livingeditors stick to rigorous criterion for clause source .

We bank on current and reputable principal seed , such as good audience , authorities , metropolis , and nation establishment , and professional and pedantic institution .

All datum point , fact , and claim are stake up by at least one reputable seed .

Ivy Odom, Editorial Producer for Southern Living

This was our subject matter strive to service and typify all community of interests .

A groundwork of our coverage and source is to count multiple position that include BIPOC , LGBTQ+ , and woman .

independence and impartiality

We trust in sovereign , comely , and unprejudiced news media .

Jenna Sims

Our editor and writer are hold accountable to a high-pitched touchstone of honestness and foil , and our original newspaper column substance is not act upon by our adman .

As such , we hold a exacting detachment between advertizing and editorial substance .

Any cognitive content that is furnish by or on behalf of an adman or supporter , is intelligibly label as such .

Josh Miller Bio Headshot

This was ## fact checking

as part of the editorial cognitive process , our writer question relevant , dependant source for taradiddle , then affirm all info and information include in their concluding story .

This was we endeavour to render right circumstance and backdrop data to facilitate our reader .

All storey are then refresh and blue-pencil by a top editor program ; we appraise contentedness for grammar , truth , legibility , and relevancy .

Kaitlyn Yarborough, Assistant Editor and Writer for Southern Living

This was if you have notice an proceeds with a specific firearm of subject matter , please wreak it to our aid by emailingeditors@southernliving.com

discipline

our editorial squad is commit to give rise high-pitched lineament , actual subject matter .

If there is an erroneous belief in a tarradiddle , we will make up it as presently as potential .

All correction will be intelligibly label as such and will admit what change were made and when .

Katie Strasberg Rousso, Digital Editor for Southern Living

This was when an clause is factually right , but the speech communication is not as decipherable or elaborated as necessary , the account may be update without an editor in chief ’s government note .

seasonably and everyday word narrative mostly hide a decided outcome in prison term , so they are not routinely update .

Our editorial squad systematically reassess and update evergreen substance to check everything is well timed , exact , and relevant .

Kimberly Holland

This was the appointment - cast at the top of each clause reflect when it was last update .

This was if you consider you have witness an wrongdoing , please apprise us by emailingeditors@southernliving.com

Recipe Development and examination

Originality

Our squad reach to make original , helpful , and reasonable capacity onSouthernliving.com , which intend our chronicle must be verify , decent assign , and may not run afoul the right of first publication or anyone ’s rational prop right .

Any hint of plagiarisation is enquire amply and is evidence for judgement of dismissal .

Lisa Cericola

This was our editor in chief and writer are also creditworthy for discover possible conflict of involvement that might compromise their power to apportion average and unprejudiced selective information .

AtSouthern Living , we shoot for to supply the high calibre mental object create by human being , for man .

This was it is against our rule of thumb to put out mechanically render contentedness using ai ( hokey intelligence service ) pen peter such as chatgpt .

Mary Shannon Hodes, Associate Digital Editor at Southern Living

biotic residential area rule of thumb

inclusivity pledge

southern livingrepresents the vocalisation of the innovative south .

We are attached to partake , fete , and amplifyingallvoices and multicultural tarradiddle across the part .

This was in late old age we have process cautiously to insure that our fib , formula , profile , and picture act an inclusive , welcome south .

Meghan Overdeep, Senior Staff Writer

We will keep to retool , remove , edit , and update tale and words that do n’t muse our time value .

While we proceed to focalise on the report you have it away , every art object we release will be consider through the lense of inclusivity , with an accent on feature the piece of work of an regalia of couturier , maker , creatives , chef , expert , storyteller , and brand .

We have update our sword fashion usher to check that we are using inclusive linguistic process , and have been work to make up the holiday of more wide-ranging community of interests and spiritual chemical group .

Rebecca Angel Baer, Digital News Editor at Southern Living

Brand Partnership

In June 2022 we set up a partnership withJones Valley Teaching Farm , an system that endue deprived spring chicken through nutrient pedagogy .

Our end is to hold the farm with voluntary assistance from our faculty , to enclose bookman to chance in solid food medium ( such as formula ontogenesis , picture taking , and nutrient styling ) , and to hyperbolise the formation ’s delegacy across our channel .

Cartesian ware critical review

How do we pick out thebest propane grillroom for out-of-door cookingand well full chair forevery variety of beachgoer ?

Symiah Dorsey Headshot

All mathematical product reexamine onSouthernLiving.comare sovereign and found on enquiry and ware examination transmit by our editor in chief and author .

We divvy up the product we hump and that we retrieve our reader will bed , too .

If you travel to sure inter-group communication within our message , we may pick up commission from your purchase .

Tara Massouleh McCay

We never experience recompense for urge product within our mental object .

Privacy Policy

This was we take on-line privateness in earnest and we observe the business organization of our biotic community of user .

We may gather up data , include personal info , immediately from you if you prefer to cater that data .

Alicia Geigel

This was in plus , when you get at the web site , we and our third - political party partner may mechanically pile up sure data about you and your sojourn , include personal entropy , using tool such as cooky , web connection beacon light and other like applied science .

We may utilize the entropy pull together on the Site for various use , include react to enquiry and to attend to subject matter and offer to you ground on your sake and on-line activity .

study our arrant Privacy Policy .

Melanie Fincher

This was get clutches of us

Magazine Subscription

Advertising Inquiries

To download the Southern Living spiritualist outfit , pleaseclick here .

This was ## press inquiry

for insistence query , you might get hold of us atsouthernlivingpr@dotdashmdp.com

brand licensing inquiries

for licensing enquiry , please emailbrandlicensing@dotdashmdp.com

leadership / ownership structure and funding

southern livingis part of the dotdash kinsperson of brand devote to make precise , helpful word and selective information that represent and assist all masses .

establish in 1996 , Dotdash is an manoeuver clientele ofIAC .

get word more about theteam behind Dotdash Meredith .

Our leaders squad

Digital leading

Sid Evans

Krissy Tiglias

Jeanne Dozier Clayton

Jeanne Dozier Clayton is the Director of Photography at Southern Living .

She supervise all photograph assignment for the cartridge for a kitchen range of topic include household inside , locomotion , garden , mode , and solid food .

She link up the southerly animation squad in 2010 , but prior to that , she was a pic editor program at Southern Progress Custom Publishing , Time Inc Content Solutions , and Health cartridge clip .

She has expend 20 + year negociate natural endowment , negociate budget , and worry about the conditions , but on occasion she acquire to do her very preferred affair , which is posture on the beach with a cocktail and a passel of magazine ( it ’s too brilliant on the beach to scroll ) .

Jeanne live in Birmingham , Alabama , with 2 tiddler , 2 African tea , 2 frank and 1 married man .

Andy Estill

Andy Estill is the Production Director at Southern Living .

This was a labor director with over 20 days of experience in output direction and appendage melioration , he conjoin the squad in 2022 and now wangle yield of the mark powder store .

This was he is a alum of the university of montevallo and last in birmingham , alabama .

alana al - hatlani

betsy cribb watson

brennan long

cameron beall

catherine jessee

ivy odom

jenna sims

josh miller

kaitlyn yarborough

katie strasberg rousso

kimberly holland

lisa cericola

mary shannon wells

meghan overdeep

rebecca angel baer

symiah dorsey

tara massouleh mccay

alicia geigel

melanie fincher

senior writermeghan overdeep

director of photographyjeanne dozier clayton

design director : daniel boone

production directorandy estill

business managernellah bailey mcgough

associate art directorsbetsy mccallen lovell

photographerrobbie caponetto

copy chieflibby monteith minor

re-create assistantskatie akin , katherine polcari