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S. Mitra Kalita is a journalist, media executive and author of two books.[1] Her first book 'Suburban Sahibs' is about how immigrants redefined New Jersey and thereby America and her second book 'My two Indias' is economic memoir about Globalization.[2]

From July 2018 to 2020, she was Senior Vice President for News, Opinion and Programming at CNN Digital[3] and was the Vice President for Programming at CNN Digital from June 2016 to July 2018.[4] She has been on the board of The Philadelphia Inquirer since November 2020.[5]

In 2020, Kalita started Epicenter-NYC, a newsletter to help New Yorkers get through the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] She is also a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University,[3] and co-founder and director of URL Media, a network of Black and Brown community news outlets that share content and revenue.[6][7][8]

Career

Mitra Kalita was the managing editor for editorial strategy at the Los Angeles Times from 2015 to 2016.[1][9][10]

She went on to become the executive editor (at large) at Quartz after working as the founding ideas editor there. She helped launch Quartz India and Quartz Africa.[1] She also worked at the Wall Street Journal[11][12][13][14] where she directed coverage of the great recession [15] and helped launch Livemint, a business newspaper in New Delhi, India[15] along with founding editor Raju Narisetti.[1]

She is a co-founder of URL Media along with Sara Lomax-Reese. She also served as a story consultant on Season 3 of Apple TV's The Morning Show.

Personal life

Kalita was born in Brooklyn and was raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico, and New Jersey.[1] She lives in Queens and has two daughters.[1][16]

Books

  • Suburban Sahibs Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage From India to America.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Edgar, Deirdre (18 March 2015). "L.A. Times expands leadership, adds Mitra Kalita as M.E." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  2. ^ "S. Mitra Kalita – ONA Community Profile". Online News Association. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  3. ^ a b "Nieman Foundation announces the 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellows". nieman.harvard.edu. 1 December 2020. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Doctor, Ken (31 May 2016). "Mitra Kalita leaves L.A. Times for CNN". politico.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Arvedlund, Erin (19 October 2020). "Kalita of CNN Digital to join Philadelphia Inquirer board of directors". inquirer.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  6. ^ "In an unusual alliance, Jewish media and striking journalists are uniting to cover the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial". May 2023.
  7. ^ "Women making history: 10 trailblazing leaders in local media". 29 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Women to Watch: Our 2021 Year in Review".
  9. ^ Edgar, Deirdre (31 May 2016). "Managing Editor S. Mitra Kalita leaving L.A. Times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  10. ^ Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (16 May 2016). "The Poachables: 10 Players in Media You Must Hire". observer.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  11. ^ S. Mitra Kalita (13 March 2009). "Americans See 18% of Wealth Vanish". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  12. ^ S. Mitra Kalita (26 May 2009). "A Tale of Two School Systems". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  13. ^ S. Mitra Kalita (17 November 2020). "Desis in the (White) House". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  14. ^ S. Mitra Kalita (15 December 2009). "Who's an Indian anyway?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  15. ^ a b "Mitra Kalita - IWMF". www.iwmf.org. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  16. ^ "about". Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  17. ^ Major, John S. (14 December 2003). "New Jersey Masala". The New York Times. Retrieved December 2, 2020.

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