S. Mitra Kalita

S. Mitra Kalita is an American journalist, media executive and author of two books.

From July 2018 to 2020, she was Senior Vice President for News, Opinion and Programming at CNN Digital She has been on the board of The Philadelphia Inquirer since November 2020. She is also a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and co-founder and director of URL Media, a network of Black and Brown community news outlets that share content and revenue.

Career Mitra Kalita was the managing editor for editorial strategy at the Los Angeles Times from 2015 to 2016.

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. where she directed coverage of the great recession and helped launch Livemint, a business newspaper in New Delhi, India

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