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
Paresh Dave, Executive Director E-mail
Catherine Green, Editor-in-Chief E-mail
Agnus-Dei Farrant, Editor-in-Chief E-mail
Paige Brettingen, Managing Editor E-mail
Amanda Martinez, Supervising Executive Producer E-mail
James Santelli, Sports Director E-mail
Aaron Fischman, Senior Sports Editor E-mail
Will Robinson, Associate Sports Editor E-mail
Candice Aman, Senior Arts Editor E-mail
Sarah Parvini, Senior Entertainment Editor E-mail
Frances Vega, Senior Entertainment Editor E-mail
Lily Min, Music Editor E-mail
Cara Palmer, Opinion Editor E-mail
Eric Parra, Tech Editor E-mail
Jaclyn Wu, Graphics Editor E-mail
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