Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, 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 of Journalism, where she teaches audio, digital, and TV journalism.

Outside of USC, Mallory is a freelance podcast 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. Previously, Carra worked at Spotify’s Parcast Studios, where she was involved in top-rated podcasts on the platform, such as Disappearances, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories for over 5 years.

Additionally, she co-leads the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) college journalism program, VOICES. Carra is an alum of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program and Poynter’s Lead with Influence. She is also a receipient of AAJA’s 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.

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