Bio

Callie 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, which is receiving high praise from the Los Angeles Times and webites like LA Observed and Mediabistro. She has also served as a staff writer and the senior news editor.

In addition to managing a staff of more than 150 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.

Schweitzer worked for People Magazine (2007-2009), writing and reporting for the magazine and People.com. She wrote for the magazine’s Heroes Among Us section and frequently contributed to the Web site with stories on Michelle Obama, Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein and Rihanna. An article she wrote on Steve-O was recently featured in an MTV documentary about the star’s road to recovery.