Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, producer and professor based in Los Angeles with nearly 20 years of professional experience across digital, audio, and print. She is an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. For the 2024-25 academic year, Mallory was elected to the USC Annenberg Faculty Advisory Council as the part-time journalism faculty representative.

Outside of teaching, Mallory is a freelance producer and writer, contributing articles to NBCU Academy’s Equity Lab and working on hit podcasts, like former USC provost Charles Zukoski’s Electric Futures, The Why Files, and Sarah Turney’s Voices for Justice. For over 5 years, Carra worked at Spotify’s Parcast Studios, where she worked on more than a dozen of the platform’s top-rated podcasts, including Disappearances, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories.

Additionally, she co-leads the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) college journalism program, VOICES. She is also a recipient of AAJA’s 2024 Dinah Eng Leadership Fellowship.

As a journalist and editor herself, Mallory has pretty much covered it all: breaking news, entertainment, celebrities, food, lifestyle, e-commerce, real estate, sports, health, and academia for media outlets such as the BBC World Service, E! News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, the New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others. She worked as an entertainment editor at Bustle for over 5 years and began her journalism career in newspapers as a staff writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee and the News & Observer in North Carolina.

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 several journalism programs including AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program and the Poynter Institute.

She is a longtime member of the Asian American Journalists Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Podcasting Academy. She also runs West Coast Media Jobs, a journalism jobs newsletter focusing on California and the Pacific Northwest.