HAGS

Folks — I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the newsletter this year, because we’ve certainly had a blast writing it. We’re pausing our daily email briefs for the summer break, although we’ll still send occasional breaking news alerts.

Some housekeeping: If you’re graduating and want to resubscribe with your personal email address, you can do so here. We also won’t be offended if you unsubscribe at the bottom of this email.

If you want to keep tracking local news over the summer, I’d recommend following Annenberg Media on Instagram and subscribing to the always-excellent California Sun newsletter.

Incredibly, Morning, Trojan grew from 800 to 4,300 subscribers this school year. We sincerely appreciate all of you who’ve followed our work: whether it be for our serious reporting, subversive scoops, snarky aggregation — or that time we launched a cyberattack on USC.

I also want to thank Matthew Royer, who co-wrote the newsletter on Wednesdays this semester and edited some of our biggest stories. He’s graduating with a master’s degree in journalism this month, after which he’ll move to New York City for a fellowship at ABC.

I have no doubt that he’ll continue to produce must-read journalism. If you want to follow his work, you can connect with him on LinkedIn and X.

Our independent team of unpaid students works hard to bring this newsletter to you every morning. If you’ve appreciated our work, you can support us financially here. All contributions go toward our software expenses (and, in the interest of transparency, a few rounds at our next team dinner).

We’ll be back in August with more scoops, more snark, and more generally adversarial reporting. I’m wishing you best of luck on your finals, and hope you have a great summer.

— Tomo