Callie Schweitzer is the Deputy Publisher of Talking Points Memo. She is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, People magazine, L.A.’s Neon Tommy, USC’s Daily Trojan, financial website Broke Piggy and college Webzine Student Health 101.

She joined Talking Points Memo as the assistant to the publisher in June 2011 and was promoted to Deputy Publisher in January 2012. She oversees all project and product management, increases and maintains audience growth  and oversees all third party advertising revenue.

She has a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in May 2011.

Before joining TPM, Schweitzer worked as the Editor-in-Chief of Neon Tommy, Annenberg’s 24/7 online news site, which is the number one most trafficked online-only university publication in America. She also served as a staff writer and the senior news editor.

In addition to managing a staff of more than 200 reporters and editors during her time at Neon Tommy, Schweitzer coordinated coverage for breaking news, day-to-day reporting and big events like Obama’s visit to USC in October 2010, the midterm elections in November 2010 and the national education protests in March 2010.

In June 2011, Schweitzer won second place in consumer journalism and honorable mention in personality profile at the L.A. Press Club awards. Her work was nominated among, and placed ahead of, major media outlets including the L.A. Times, Bloomberg, Forbes and People magazine.

In December 2010, Schweitzer was named among the top ten winners in the opinion writing category of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Schweitzer has also won a Herb Klein endowed scholarship in government and political reporting and a Glen and Alberta Ingles endowed scholarship for investigative reporting.

In the fall of 2009, she wrote the main piece of an exclusive break-out multimedia package on H1N1 in L.A. County. Her work was named a finalist in the student media category of the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors awards and won second place at the L.A. Press Club awards for best online investigative news package.

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