Christina Pascucci’s Life After TV News Includes Motherhood, a Run for Office and Joining the California State Guard

By Paul Greeley
817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com

In the latest episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with Christina Pascucci to trace her path from the anchor desk to motherhood, from Senate runs to serving in uniform.

Ball’s podcasts are titled Life After News: New chapters. Bold moves. Real stories.

Ball has nearly 35 years’ experience in local TV news as a producer, executive producer, podcaster and news director at stations in Memphis, Miami and Los Angeles.

Christina Pascucci is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, licensed pilot, and humanitarian. She worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor for KTLA, L.A.’s No. 1 morning news station, from 2011 until 2022.

Pascucci says since leaving TV news two years ago, she ran for U.S. Senate while 5 months pregnant, gave birth, then joined the California State Guard, reported from the fire zone while serving in uniform, traveled to Yemen, launched her own consultancy firm and became a leading voice in foster care reform.

Pascucci is expecting her second baby.

She speaks about the broken foster care system and how to fix it; why traveling with a baby changes everything; the news assignment that finally broke her and what journalists do better than most politicians.