Christina Carrega is an award-winning journalist and the National Criminal Justice Reporter for Capital B.

Previously, Christina was a crime and justice reporter for CNN, multimedia reporter for ABC News, news editor of The Queens Daily Eagle and The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspapers as well as a criminal justice reporter for The New York Daily News and The New York Post. 

During Christina’s career, she has covered wrongful conviction cases, thoroughly reported on high-profile trials and investigated alleged scams in the travel and childcare industries. One of Christina’s investigations resulted in Brooklyn prosecutors charging a purported clergyman who stole thousands of dollars from parents for a phantom summer camp. The other shined light on an alleged scam artists who duped vacationers to pay thousands of dollars for “Black Yacht Week” that was advertised as a luxury trip and fell flat.

As a criminal legal reporter, Christina unfortunately found herself on the other side of the journalism world when she reported being sexually assaulted. She penned her five-year legal battle that set a legal precedent in New York State in a personal essay that was published in the Columbia Journalism Review.

Christina’s professional journalism career began as a freelancer with the Canarsie Courier and as the newspaper director for The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, a non-profit after-school program in Queens, New York. 

The New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) awarded her first place for 2017’s’ and 2014’s Best Spot News and in 2013 was a finalist for the National Association of Black Journalists’s (NABJ) Best Single News Story. 

She previously served as NYABJ’s Vice President of Broadcast and volunteers as a board member with Princess Chambers Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting underprivileged youth. She also is on the board for the Criminal Justice Journalists organization and is an adjunct professor with the American Journalism Online Graduate Program at New York University. 

Christina is a first-generation born American and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from St. John’s University where she majored in Journalism and minored in International Studies.