Southern alumnus Anthony Fantano, ’08, is the biggest name in music journalism today, amassing more than 2.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel The Needle Drop.
Fantano has said that his college years — specifically time spent at WSIN, the college radio station — expanded his focus on music and media. He majored in liberal studies [now interdisciplinary studies], with concentrations in journalism, political science, and communication. During an internship at Connecticut Public Radio in Hartford, he proposed and ran “The Needle Drop,” an early iteration of his hit video series, as a podcast — setting the stage for what would eventually evolve into his wildly popular vlog (video log or blog).
And the rest, as they say, is history! #BeMoreInspired
Read Fantano’s latest interview with The Teen Magazine here.
