USC Daily Trojan student-run newspaper will no longer print daily NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

The University of Southern California’s historic Daily Trojan student-run newspaper will no longer be printed daily.

In a meeting with student editors last Friday, representatives from USC Student Life informed the publication that significant funding cuts would be implemented for the Spring 2025 semester.

“I think all of us in that meeting felt pretty blindsided,” said recently elected editor-in-chief Stefano Fendrich in an interview with NBCLA.

Among the budget cuts, students will no longer be paid for their work nor will the paper be physically printed five days a week – now just three. 

“It was just straight up telling us, hey, we have this deficit, and this is how we plan to cut it,” Fendrich said.

Daily Trojan editors have traditionally received a small monthly stipend for their work. All other contributors were also paid even smaller allowances for their work on a piece-by-piece basis.

In a statement released by the publication Monday, editors saidthe “decision was made …