<p>One of America’s leading academics and an award-winning journalist, Christina Bellantoni takes audiences behind the headlines to deliver shrewd analysis of the key political, policy and media issues impacting organizations today—as well as insight on potential outcomes of the upcoming 2024 elections.</p><p>As the former assistant managing editor for politics at the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, Bellantoni brings a vast level of expertise to national political and election coverage. In addition to her status as a highly sought guest commentator on political broadcasts and high-profile role at the LA Times, she is the former editor-in-chief at <em>Roll Call</em> and former political editor at PBS NewsHour. She spent 20 years covering politics at every level and worked on both the left and the right.</p><p>Bellantoni is now a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where she leads the school's student newsroom. She teaches the next generation of journalists about inclusive and equitable reporting, the importance of diversity in media, and how they must stick with a "just the facts" approach to earn the trust of a media weary nation.</p><p>With stories from the White House and the halls of Congress, Bellantoni provides a thoughtful and thorough analysis of news and events from all sides of the political spectrum, including up-to-the-minute insights on policy and the evolution of modern political parties in a polarized era. With wide-ranging experience covering national politics and presidential campaigns as well as important issues like tax policy, immigration, health care and the federal budget, she shows audience s an exclusive insider’s view of what's happening in Washington and how it will impact the future of their business or organization.</p><p>Christina frequently appears on television and radio, including NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. She will author a chapter in Sean M. Theriault’s <em>Disruption: The Senate During the Trump Era</em>, entitled “The End of the Institutionalist, to be published in April 2024. </p><p><img src="https://kepplerbluesky.my.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?oi…;
Former Assistant Managing Editor for Politics <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and Former Editor-in-chief of <em>Roll Call</em>
<ul><li><strong>The 2024 Elections and the Future of Your Organization</strong></li><li>As election season approaches, Christina Bellantoni takes a clear, insightful look at where the candidates stand on major issues and policies. What do their viewpoints, promises, and potential victories mean for the future of your business? As our nation faces fractured political views, the harsh global reality of two wars, and a volatile economy, Bellantoni draws on more than 20 years of experience in journalism covering local, state and federal government—as well as four presidential campaigns and the White House—to examine how the potential outcomes could impact your organization in the years to come.</li><li><strong>Battling Fake News and Recognizing Media Bias</strong></li><li>Journalists are taught that if they are making everyone mad, they must be doing something right. That old adage must be shattered if the media industry is ever going to regain the nation's trust. It's not a partisan issue to evaluate the deep-rooted problems within newsrooms, and to recognize that both political sides are right that something has eroded since the days Walter Cronkite was beloved. Drawing on 20 years in newsrooms on both the left and the right, along with academic research from her perch at one of the best journalism schools in the country, Christina Bellantoni offers audiences tips for navigating a polarized media landscape and tools for finding the truth.</li><li><strong>Congress in the Era of Insurrection</strong></li><li>People-powered political movements are nothing new, but they never made it to the halls of Congress until the year 2021. Taking a deep dive into the many factions of both parties on Capitol Hill, Christina Bellantoni draws upon her coverage of the anti-immigration movement that reshaped the Republican Party, the Tea Party's power and populist message and the Black Lives Matter movement. Which lawmakers will be allies to the Biden administration? How will Republicans divide their loyalties? Do lawmakers need to fear a repeat of what happened on January 6? How will the next midterm election cycle will take shape? Bellantoni, who led the newspaper<em> Roll Call</em>—a publication that has covered Capitol Hill since 1955—knows about parliamentary procedure and the inner workings of legislative minutiae that matter as the Biden administration attempts to get its agenda through Congress.</li><li><strong>Diversity in Media</strong></li><li>News outlets across the country are facing a reckoning on the issues of equity and inclusion, in terms of what they cover and internally as leaders evaluate the diversity of their staff. From dealing with microaggressions to the fallout from the #MeToo movement, the conversation is reshaping how Americans get their news. Christina Bellantoni has led teams and entire newsrooms on both coasts, at organizations with both right- and left-leaning perspectives and can speak to a wide variety of media issues. She was the first woman on the L.A. Times masthead to have a baby and she fought for fair pay for reporters of color. Now an academic, Bellantoni is teaching the next generation of journalists to recognize their own biases, use inclusive practices, report with sensitive language and consider perspectives they disagree with.</li></ul>