MALLORY CARRA
WRITER - JOURNALIST - PROFESSOR
Mallory Carra is a journalist available for assignments in Los Angeles and beyond.
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 teaching, Mallory is a freelance producer and writer, contributing articles to NBCU Academy’s Equity Lab, The Spruce Home, and House Digest, and working on hit podcasts, like former USC provost Charles Zukoski’s Electric Futures (an LA Press Club finalist for Limited Podcast Series) 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.
As a journalist and editor herself, Mallory has pretty much covered it all: breaking news, entertainment, celebrities, food, lifestyle, e-commerce, real estate, home, pets, 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 at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the Poynter Institute.
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 an avid painter, gardener and yogi.
HONORS
Selected as an AAJA Executive Leadership Porgram (ELP) fellow and received honors from the LA Press Club, Final Draft Big Break Contest, Script Pipeline, the Tennessee Sports Writers Association, and more.
BOOKS
Featured in the New York Times bestseller, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, and the textbook, Teaching Stephen King.
PRESS
Quoted in the Baltimore Sun, the New York Post, LA Weekly, NBCU Academy, and more.
TEACHING
Mallory is an experienced part-time journalism professor who teaches classes in audio, video and digital journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She also taught social media journalism at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.
In 2024, she co-led the Asian American Journalists Association’s college student fellowship program, VOICES, after serving as an editor/mentor in 2023.
SPEAKING
Mallory is available to guest lecture classes, moderate and/or speak on panels (in person and virtual), facilitate workshops, and more.
Previous spaking engagements include:
- her alma mater New York University (the Los Angeles campus, Wasserman Career Center, and the NYU Production Lab) – guest speaker (2020, 2021, 2025)
- Asian American Journalists Association convention – moderator, workshop leader (2007, 2025)
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention – panelist (2024)
- Society of Professional Journalists Freelance Community – panelist (2024)
- AAJA California State University, Northridge chapter – guest speaker (2024)
- USC Annenberg Media Equity Fest – panelist (2023)
- Grand Arts Media Symposium – guest speaker (2022)
- RomCom Fest – Q&A moderator (2019)
AUDIO STORYTELLING &
ON-MIC APPEARANCES
As a freelance writer/producer, Mallory has worked on hit podcasts, such as Sarah Turney’s Voices for Justice, The Why Files, and former USC provost Charles Zukoski’s Electric Futures, focusing on communities facing great economic and environmental change.
For over 5 years, Mallory wrote and edited scripted true crime and dark history podcasts for Spotify’s Parcast Studios on a freelance, then full-time basis. She earned a certificate from UC Berkeley’s Advanced Media Institute in Podcasting: Telling Stories in Sound. Mallory has also contributed work to the BBC World Service’s Outside Source and has appeared on NPR stations and the LAist Studios podcast, How to LA.
She is available for podcast consulting services.
PORTFOLIO
Mallory’s work has appeared in many, many digital media outlets, podcast networks, and newspapers across the country over the past 20 years.
- All
- Audio
- Print/Text
- Video
