Deepti Hajela is an
American
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** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
journalist who has been a newswoman for the
Associated Press since 1996. She works in the New York bureau of the AP, covering a wide range of stories in the metropolitan region. In addition to breaking news and feature stories, she occasionally does music and book reviews (including quick-turnaround reviews of some of the Harry Potter books in the days after their release). She was president of the
South Asian Journalists Association
The South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) was founded in 1994 in New York City. Sree Sreenivisan, Dilip Massand, M.K. Srinivasan and Om Malik co-founded SAJA as a networking organization for South Asian journalists. It is a group of more th ...
from 2005 to 2008.
Hajela is a 1996 graduate of
Northwestern University's
Medill School of Journalism.
Notes
1970s births
Journalists from New Jersey
Living people
Medill School of Journalism alumni
American women journalists
American women writers of Indian descent
21st-century American women writers
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