Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, producer, and professor based in Los Angeles with over 20 years of professional experience working with digital, audio, and print journalism. At Annenberg, she teaches JOUR 206 Live, serves as a part-time representative on the Faculty Advisory Council, and is the supervising producer of Electric Futures, an award-winning podcast from the Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication hosted by former provost Charles Zukoski.

Outside of Annenberg, Carra contributes articles to The Guardian and NBCU Academy’s Equity Lab and mentors high school journalism students in the Koreatown Storytelling Program and The LA Local. She is currently a board member of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Los Angeles Chapter.

As a journalist and editor, Carra’s work has appeared in and on the BBC World Service, E! News, The Spruce, Cosmopolitan, the New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others. She worked as an entertainment editor at Bustle, worked on in-house true crime and history podcasts at Spotify, and began her career in newspapers at the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the News & Observer. 

A native of New York City, Carra has an M.F.A. in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a B.A. in journalism from New York University. She is a longtime member of AAJA and the Writers Guild of America. She also runs West Coast Media Jobs, a journalism jobs newsletter focusing on California and the Pacific Northwest.