Christina Bellantoni is a professor of professional practice, the director of USC Annenberg’s Media Center and the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy faculty fellow.
Bellantoni is a digital strategy consultant with the Outlook News Group based in La Cañada. She served as a contributing editor at The 19th News, a nonprofit newsroom, in 2021.
Bellantoni joined USC Annenberg in 2018 after serving as a member of the masthead at the Los Angeles Times.
Over her more than 20 years in journalism, Bellantoni has worked as a reporter and editor, as a producer and as an analyst on national television. She has covered local, state and federal government, along with four presidential campaigns and the White House.
At the Times, Bellantoni was an assistant managing editor focused on politics. Under her leadership, the California politics team earned statewide recognition for innovative coverage of politics. Her work brought more transparency to California’s state capital.
She joined the newspaper after spending 12 years as a journalist in Washington, D.C., serving as editor-in-chief of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call until moving to Los Angeles in 2015.
Before Roll Call, Bellantoni was the political editor and an on-air analyst at the PBS NewsHour. She oversaw political coverage.