S. Mitra Kalita is a journalist, media executive and author of two books. 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. From July 2018 to 2020, she was Senior Vice President for News, Opinion and Programming at

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Digital and was the Vice President for Programming at CNN Digital from June 2016 to July 2018. She has been on the board of ''

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'' since November 2020. In 2020, Kalita started Epicenter-NYC, a newsletter to help New Yorkers get through the

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. She is also a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow at

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Career

Mitra Kalita was the managing editor for editorial strategy at the ''

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'' from 2015 to 2016. She went on to become the executive editor (at large) at

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after working as the founding ideas editor there. She helped launch Quartz India and Quartz Africa. She also worked at the ''

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'' where she directed coverage of the great recession and helped launch

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, a business newspaper in New Delhi, India along with founding editor

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Personal life

Kalita was born in

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and was raised in

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, and

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. She lives in

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and has two daughters.

Books

* ''Suburban Sahibs Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage From India to America.''

References

External links

S. Mitra Kalita on TwitterMitra Kalita websiteJournalists profile of Mitra Kalita
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