Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, and professor based in Los Angeles with nearly 20 years of professional experience working with digital, audio, and print. At USC Annenberg, she teaches JOUR 206 Live, coaches elevASIAN and Annenberg Radio News, and serves as a part-time representative on the Faculty Advisory Council.

Currently, Carra 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. Previously, Carra worked at Spotify, where she wrote for its top true crime and history podcasts. 

As a journalist and editor, Carra’s work has appeared in and on 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 career in newspapers at the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the News & Observer. 

Additionally, she co-leads the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) college journalism program, VOICES, and is a 2023 alum of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program.

A native of New York City, Carra has an MFA in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a BA 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.