Short bio:

Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, producer, and professor based in Los Angeles with over 20 years of professional experience across digital, audio, and print. She is a part-time professor, teaching video, audio, and digital journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Outside of USC, she mentors high school journalism students in The LA Local youth journalism program, serves on the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)-Los Angeles board, co-leads AAJA’s Mentor Match program, and is co-director of the AAJA Radio and Podcasting Affinity Group. Mallory has contributed articles to The Guardian US, NBCU Academy, The Spruce, E! News, the New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others; and worked on hit podcasts for Spotify and USC Annenberg.

Long bio:

Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, producer and professor based in Los Angeles with over 20 years of professional experience across digital, audio, and print. She is a part-time professor, teaching video, audio, and digital journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. She also mentors high school journalism students in The LA Local youth journalism program, serves on the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)-Los Angeles board, co-leads AAJA’s Mentor Match program, and is co-director of the AAJA Radio and Podcasting Affinity Group.

Outside of teaching, Mallory is a freelance producer and writer who has contributed articles to The Guardian US, NBCU Academy’s Equity Lab, and The Spruce Home, and worked on hit podcasts, like former USC provost Charles Zukoski’s Electric Futures ( a two-time LA Press Club finalist for Best Limited Podcast Series) and Sarah Turney’s Voices for Justice. For over five years, Carra worked at Spotify’s Parcast Studios, where she worked on over a dozen of the platform’s top-rated in-house podcasts, including Disappearances, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories.

As a veteran journalist, Mallory has pretty much covered it all: breaking news, entertainment, celebrities, food, lifestyle, e-commerce, real estate, home, pets, sports, health, academia, and niche topics for media outlets such as the BBC World Service, E! News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others. She worked as an entertainment editor at Bustle for over five years and began her journalism career in newspapers as a staff writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, The News & Observer in North Carolina, and the New York Daily News.

A native of New York City, Mallory has an M.F.A. in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a B.A. in journalism from New York University. Additionally, she earned a certificate in podcasting from UC Berkeley’s Advanced Media Institute and is an alum of programs at AAJA, the Poynter Institute, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Improv Porgram.

She is a longtime member of AAJA, the Writers Guild of America, and the Podcast Academy. She also runs West Coast Media Jobs, a journalism jobs newsletter focusing on California and the Pacific Northwest. Outside of journalism and teaching, she is a CYT-200 yoga teacher, a CTEC tax preparer, an avid painter and gardener.