About Us
Neon Tommy is a web-only, Los Angeles-based news source sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism through Annenberg Digital News. Our visitors depend on us to cover crucial stories that would otherwise fall by the wayside, and to provide meaningful context in a cluttered media landscape. Our fleet of reporters is a powerful presence throughout Los Angeles and across Southern California, with selective coverage of national and international events.
We take particular care to avoid redundancy with other news outlets; our work is fresh and unique, telling stories that other outlets are not. When another outlet has the story, we point our visitors there.
We are innovative and interative, pushing the boundaries of storytelling on the Internet. We throw dated, inaccurate, and misguided news paradigms out the window. We employ a variety of platforms and technologies to create engaging experiences for our visitors. We represent the future of digital news.
Annenberg Digital News
Annenberg Digital News is a multimedia newsroom that is operated, edited and managed by graduate and undergraduate journalism students of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
It serves not only as a lab and incubator for ongoing and transformative innovation in the fast-changing world of journalism but also as a vibrant and rich source of the very best in local, regional, national and international reporting and commentary.
ADN publishes Neon Tommy on an around-the-clock basis, constantly refreshing the site with the very best in Annenberg journalism. ADN draws not only from its own robust stable of staff writers, columnists and editors, but also brings forward the very best in multi-platform journalism produced by the various reporting, investigative reporting, collaborative reporting projects, research centers and institutes that have put USC Annenberg on the front lines of modern American journalism.
Staff
Dan Watson, Editor-in-Chief E-mail
Tracy Bloom, Deputy Editor E-mail
Ryan Faughnder, Executive Editor E-mail
Benjamin Gottlieb, Executive Editor E-mail
Jessica McCormack, Managing Editor E-mail
David McAlpine, Supervising Executive Producer E-mail
Agnus-Dei Farrant, Senior News Editor E-mail
Catherine Green, Deputy News Editor E-mail
Paige Brettingen, Special Projects Editor E-mail
Hannah Madans, Associate News Editor E-mail
Tom Dotan, Editor-at-Large E-mail
Katie Rooney, Senior Sports Editor E-mail
James Santelli, Senior Sports Editor E-mail
Sara Ramsey, Associate Sports Editor E-mail
Jovan Buha, Associate Sports Editor E-mail
Sarah Sotoodeh, Associate Sports Editor E-mail
Johnie Freatman, Associate Sports Editor E-mail
Candice Aman, Senior Arts Editor E-mail
Veronica Werhane, Senior Arts Editor - E-mail
Katie Buenneke, Associate Arts Editor - Theater E-mail
Judy Wang, Associate Arts Editor - Literature E-mail
Nicole Shoohed, Senior Entertainment Editor E-mail
Mike Vulpo, Senior Entertainment Editor E-mail
Sarah Parvini, Senior Entertainment Editor - Music E-mail
Frances Vega, Senior Entertainment Editor - Fashion E-mail
Lily Min, Associate Entertainment Editor - Music E-mail
Allison Selick, Associate Entertainment Editor - Fashion E-mail
Reut Cohen, Senior Opinion Editor E-mail
Cara Palmer, Deputy Opinion Editor E-mail
Jaclyn Wu, Graphics Editor E-mail
Didi Beck, Graphics Editor E-mail
Nicole Stockdale, Marketing Director E-mail
Malia Schilling, Social Director E-mail
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