Neon Tommy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for products and services. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Neon Tommy" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images (January 2011)
Question book-new.svg
 This article relies on references to primary sources. Please add references to secondary or tertiary sources. (January 2011)
This article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links. (January 2011)
Neon Tommy
Type Online news website
Owner Annenberg Digital News
Publisher University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Editor Paresh Dave
Founded Spring 2009
Language English
Circulation Undisclosed
Official website http://www.neontommy.com/

Neon Tommy is the 24/7, multimedia online news publication sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Contents

Publication [edit]

Neon Tommy is a web-only student publication. The website is considered a Los Angeles-based news source, focusing on Los Angeles and California, but covering national and international stories as well.

The website strives to make its work fresh and unique, telling stories that other outlets are not. The website is a product of calls in recent years that print journalism is dying. The website aims to offers students at the schools a platform through which to learn the future of journalism, which is expected to be focused online.[1]

Competing in the real life blogosphere, the website is regularly linked to by the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, LAist, The Huffington Post, Romenesko, Gawker, Yahoo!, CNN,[2] SB Nation and more.

History [edit]

The website launched in Spring 2009. The website received a redesign during Summer 2010. On annual basis, the website receives 5 million visitors, who come from more than 120 countries.

Acclaim [edit]

Neon Tommy won an L.A. Press Club award in 2010 for its reporting of the local swine flu crisis.[3]

Neon Tommy won two L.A. Press Club awards in 2011 and received two honorable mentions as well.[4]

Neon Tommy won 10 L.A. Press Club awards in 2012, including for best sports photo and best online feature.[5]

Neon Tommy was a finalist for several other awards in 2012. It was recognized by the Online News Association for its multimedia coverage of a shooting on campus in April 2012 that left two graduate students dead.[6] The National Entertainment Journalism Awards included several Neon Tommy articles among its finalists, including for best online critic.[7]

Purpose [edit]

Unlike the Daily Trojan, USC's student newspaper, Neon Tommy doesn't report on events on campus.

Operated, edited and managed by graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines, the website 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.[8]

Organization [edit]

A team of editors coordinates a staff of volunteers, who range from regular reporters to occasional contributors.

Editors for 2012

  • Paresh Dave, Executive Director
  • Catherine Green, Editor-in-Chief
  • Agnus-Dei Farrant, Editor-in-Chief
  • Paige Brettingen, Managing Editor
  • Amanda Martinez, Supervising Executive Producer
  • James Santelli, Sports Director
  • Aaron Fischman, Senior Sports Editor
  • Will Robinson, Associate Sports Editor
  • Candice Aman, Senior Arts Editor
  • Elizabeth Johnson, Senior Entertainment Editor
  • Lily Min, Music Editor
  • Allison Selick, Style Editor
  • Jenny Chao, Associate Entertainment Editor
  • Cara Palmer, Opinion Editor
  • Eric Parra, Tech Editor

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130437287
  2. ^ http://articles.cnn.com/2010-08-04/tech/blackberry.fans_1_blackberry-users-keyboard-smartphone-competitors/3?_s=PM:TECH
  3. ^ http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/100628LAPressClub.aspx
  4. ^ http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Winners2011.pdf
  5. ^ http://news.usc.edu/#!/article/36330/neon-tommy-shines-at-los-angeles-press-club-awards/
  6. ^ http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/online-news-association-2012-journalism-awards-californiawatch-latimes-neontmmy-grantland_b70570
  7. ^ http://blog.uscannenberg.org/?p=4657
  8. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/entertainment/la-et-onthemedia-20110323

External links [edit]
Schools and divisions
Research
Athletics
Media
Miscellaneous
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neon_Tommy&oldid=552166942"