Indian American Journalist Named Managing Editor Of Los Angeles Times

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Los Angeles, March 19: S. Mitra Kalita, a 38-year-old Indian American journalist who has worked at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and most recently as the executive editor of Quartz, has been named managing editor for editorial strategy at the Los Angeles Times. Kalita was part of the founding team at Indian business daily Mint. She will start at LA Times at the end of this month.

LA Times publisher Austin Beutner and editor Davan Maharaj announced the development Wednesday.

 

Kalita, whose parents are Assamese but was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico and New Jersey, has been brought in to "create and refine new forms of journalism" and has her work cut out as advertisers increasingly put their money on swiftly-expanding digital media, the LA Times report said. She will "find new communities of readers".

Legacy American publishers such as the LA Times have struggled in recent years with declining circulation and revenues from print and an inability to monetize digital properties sufficiently to make up.