Bellantoni

Christina Bellantoni, a former reporter for the Palo Alto Daily News and later chief of that paper’s Los Gatos bureau, has been named political editor of PBS’s “NewsHour.”

She has been associate politics editor at CQ Roll Call since October 2010, and she has appeared regularly as political analyst on “Hardball,” “Countdown,” “On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren,” “Reliable Sources,” “TopLine,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” and “The Daily Rundown.” Bellantoni left the Daily News in 2003 for Washington and has worked at The Washington Times and Talking Points Memo.