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]
S. Mitra Kalita | |
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 Kalita at the International Journalism Festival 2024 in Perugia, Italy | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University, Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, media executive |
| Notable work | Suburbal Sahibs, My Two Indias |
| Spouse | Nitin Mukul |
| Children | 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]