Callie SchweitzerCallie Schweitzer is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles, California. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, People magazine, digital news site Neon Tommy, USC’s Daily Trojan, financial website Broke Piggy and college Webzine Student Health 101.

Schweitzer is a senior majoring in print and digital journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Neon Tommy, Annenberg’s new digital news site. She has also served as a staff writer and the senior news editor.

In addition to managing a staff of more than 50 reporters and editors, she coordinates coverage for breaking news, day-to-day reporting and big events like the California primaries and the March 4 education protests. She continues to write and report for the site, covering politics, the economy, education and health care.

In the fall, 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 2nd place at the L.A. Press Club awards for best online investigative news package.

She worked as a copy editing intern at the New York Times (summer 2009), writing headlines, blurbs and captions and editing copy for the daily paper. She contributed writing and reporting to The Choice, the Times’ college admissions blog. Read More »

Callie Schweitzer