[mlo]

"Well, there are plenty of cases in which particles can go faster than light, in the sense that in certain mediums, neutrinos can pass through without interaction while photons do not."

They aren't talking about neutrinos getting to the detector faster than some particular photons going through a medium. They are talking about C, the speed of light in a vacuum.

[Boogieman]

Well, this part of the article suggests they ARE comparing it to the speed of light in the medium:

“Light would have covered the distance in around 2.4 thousandths of a second, but the neutrinos took 60 nanoseconds - or 60 billionths of a second - less than light beams would have taken.”

Might just be a poorly written article though.