Neon Tommy Pays Its Staffers

We caught this tweet from the feed of USC’s online newspaper Neon Tommy yesterday. And it blew our minds! Neon Tommy is paying its student editorial staffers? That can’t be right, can it? We exchanged emails with USC Annenberg director of digital news Marc Cooper yesterday, who informed us that, yes, Neon Tommy has had a policy of paying its staffers for quite some time.

“We have about 20 editors, reporters and promo/ people getting paid.

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