S. Mitra Kalita

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
Born
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University, Columbia University
Occupation(s)author, journalist, media executive
Notable workSuburbal Sahibs, My Two Indias
SpouseNitin Mukul
Children2

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. 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. "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. 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. https://www.jta.org/2023/05/01/united-states/in-an-unusual-alliance-jewish-media-and-striking-journalists-are-uniting-to-cover-the-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-trial
  7. https://localmedia.org/2022/03/women-making-history-10-trailblazing-leaders-in-local-media/
  8. https://mailchi.mp/1a8955aea467/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. "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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