Christina Bellantoni

Visitors to this site may have noticed that it has — ahem — been awhile since I updated it.

I’ve struggled with the best “Hey, I’m back” kind of post to do, and somehow I’m still recovering from the election year.

Do I post my collection of my best segments with the PBS NewsHour, where I’ve served as the Political Editor since Jan. 2, 2012? Do I ask you to subscribe to The Morning Line, the daily political newsletter that my team and I get up very early each weekday to write?

Do I mention that I got to do this really cool fashion spread with a bunch of amazing female journalists last fall?

Do I tell you that profiling Rep. Tim Ryan and his meditation and yoga practice for a new magazine called Mindful changed my life?

Do I fill you in on my personal life, tell you I got a divorce? That I’ve been trying to learn all the painful lessons that go along with that, and appreciate each moment and the importance of letting go?

Do I promote my extra curricular activities, let you know you can buy a ticket to the charity Congressional Women’s Softball Game on June 26? (Yes, I’m playing. Jury’s still out on how terrible of a player I am. It’s for a great cause!)

Maybe I just say thanks for visiting, and I hope to keep this fresher in the weeks and months to come.

I am super excited to announce that I’ll be an Institute of Politics fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School in the fall.

This is an incredible opportunity to enrich my love of politics and work with the brilliant undergraduate students at Harvard.

MediaBistro did a brief write-up of the news when Harvard announced the fall fellows. Here’s an excerpt:

According to an internal memo, Christina will work from campus September through November.
“She’ll work remotely on Mondays to help with the Tuesday politics section, take a few web duty shifts and assist with a few special projects. It also means we’ll have one of our best editors stationed in Boston and available to write occasional stories about the GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire or Massachusetts politics,” Montgomery explained in his memo.
At Harvard, Christina will focus on the media echo chamber and presidential politics. She will also host guests from politics and journalism for off-the-record discussions over the course of the semester. Congrats to Christina!

Read the post in full here.

I wrote a cover line for More Magazine this spring, exploring the new energy that conservative women have brought to politics since Barack Obama became president.

Here’s the intro:

The Great Awakening of the Mommy Patriots

It doesn’t matter what Sarah Palin does. Or even whether Michele Bachmann runs. What matters is that thousands of conservative women are connecting with their female candidates—and each other—with unexpected passion. This new segment of politically active women has found its voice, and its members don’t plan on shutting up or sitting down in 2012.

You can read the piece in full here.

And you can watch a clip of me talking about the piece on Fox News here.

Not sure if you can tell this was frightening moment, but somehow it all worked out.

Violent Political Rhetoric Is the Inescapable Context of the Arizona Tragedy

The stunning Tucson, Ariz., ambush during the most basic act of democracy — a Congresswoman meeting with constituents back home — has illuminated an ugly breakdown in American political discourse.

As a young journalist who spent hours photocopying my newspaper clippings, I was terrified of sending out the last copy, losing the printed word forever. In the digital world there’s a new fear: What if the link goes dead? Here are some tips for best practices to avoid losing links forever.

Watch the most memorable political ads that helped determine winners and losers on Tuesday.

On Oct. 18 I started a new gig, working for the first time as an editor on the kick-ass Politics team at Roll Call.

Here’s a short item the Washington Post put up when I announced the move.

The bottom line is that change is good, exhilarating even, and the best part about the job is that I’m already learning a ton. I’ll still appear on television and will be tweeting away, especially since I’ll be helping Roll Call with social media strategy. (Are you following @rollcall?)

I’ve done a little blogging which you can read here, but mostly I’m working with the reporters who post stories for the web and in the print edition of Roll Call.

Perhaps one of the funnier segments I’ve done on television. Here’s an Oct. 15 hit on Hardball with Chris Matthews discussing a bizarre new trend in politics.

Watch the segment: