Dec 2, 2014: New York Times: Magazine’s Account of Gang Rape on Virginia Campus Comes Under Scrutiny
Marc Cooper, an associate professor in journalism at the University of Southern California, said the magazine had not misled anyone or abrogated a duty in not contacting those accused, because they were unnamed. If the article had been written as a first-person account, he said, there would be no questions. “I don’t think there’s nearly as much at stake as people think,” Mr. Cooper said.
Marc Cooper, an associate professor in journalism at the University of Southern California, said the magazine had not misled anyone or abrogated a duty in not contacting those accused, because they were unnamed. If the article had been written as a first-person account, he said, there would be no questions. “I don’t think there’s nearly as much at stake as people think,” Mr. Cooper said.
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Apr 16, 2013: ATVN: ATVN, Neon Tommy, ARN Win SPJ Awards in Vegas
Our sister organization Neon Tommy took first place in Online News Reporting for its ongoing coverage of the shooting of two USC students in April 2012. Nov 16, 2012: Fishbowl LA: Neon Tommy Pages Through LA’s Surviving Bookstores
The first few paragraphs of her article “The Last Bookshops of Los Angeles” offer a succinct snapshot of the seismic shift enveloping bricks-and-mortar literary merchants: June 27, 2012: USC: Neon Tommy shines at Los Angeles Press Club Awards
Journalists from Neon Tommy, USC’s student-operated, online news source, won big at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 54th annual Southern California Journalism Awards on June 24 in downtown Los Angeles. May 31, 2012: J-Lab: Neon Tommy - Q&A with Founder Marc Cooper
Marc Cooper will be the keynote speaker at the two-day J-Lab seminar “New News Labs: Exploring University News Start-Ups” (#jnewslab), June 1-2 in Washington, D.C. Mar 23, 2011: Poynter: Neon Tommy draws a larger audience than any other web-only college news site
The two-year-old USC site ranks sixth among college outlets when thrown in with those that also produce print publications. Mar 23, 2011: Los Angeles Times: On the Media: At Neon Tommy, the reporters are responsible for delivery too
But the young people running Neon Tommy are purveyors of a new journalism, concerned as much with how a story is delivered and discovered by its audience as with how it's reported and written.
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Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, journalism professor and blogger. He is a contributing editor to The Nation. He wrote the popular "Dissonance" column for LA Weekly from 2001 until November 2008. His writing has also appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, the Christian Science Monitor, Playboy and Rolling Stone. His translated work has been published in various European and Latin American publications including the French daily Liberation and the Mexico City-based dailies La Jornada and Uno Mas Uno. He has also been a television producer for PBS, CBS News, and the Christian Science Monitor. His radio reports have aired on NBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC. During the 2008 presidential campaign he worked as editorial coordinator of the Huffington Post's citizen-journalism project OffTheBus as well as a Senior Editor of the overall site.
