Christina Bellantoni

Christina is a professor of professional practice at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and director of the Annenberg Media Center. She is a contributing associate publisher with the Outlook News Group based in La Cañada. She served as a contributing editor at The 19th News, a nonprofit newsroom that covers gender, politics and policy, in 2021. She joined Annenberg in August 2018 after serving as a member of the masthead at the Los Angeles Times for three years. Over her more than 20 years in journalism, Christina worked as a reporter and editor, behind the camera as a producer and in front of it as an analyst on national television. She has covered local, state and federal government, along with four presidential campaigns and the White House. She spent 12 years as a journalist in Washington, D.C. She served as editor-in-chief of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call until moving to Los Angeles in 2015. Before taking over Roll Call, Christina was the political editor at the PBS NewsHour. She also covered politics at Talking Points Memo and the Washington Times. Before moving to D.C., she worked at three newspapers in the Bay Area.