The managing editor of Los Angeles Times, Sanghamitra Kalita who joined LA Times in March last year will reportedly be leaving the tribune publishing-owned broadsheet in favour of CNN’s digital operations.
Kalita will be joining CNN as the vice president of digital programming. The Time-Warner- owned outlet is making into a digital content as part of a broader push.
Mitra was reported as stating that the success of journalism rests on two important factors: how good the story is and how good is the distribution. How adaptive is one to different devices and platforms and how accessible, relatable,intimate and authoritative is it.
Prior to joining the LA Times, Kalita had been an executive editor of Quartz and had also worked at The Wall Street Journal, Mint and the Washington Post.
Sanghamitra Kalita, 30 had earlier won the Pulitzer prize for her outstanding work in journalism.
She is the Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times and was part of the team that broke the story of the San Bernardino shooting that occurred in the US last December. Kalita was born in Brooklyn to Assamese parents.
Born to Mahesh Kalita and Nirmala Kalita – her mother was brought up in the Santipur area of Guwahati. Sanghamitra’s paternal family had settled down in Sadiya, a place of which she remembers fondly.
Sanghamitra received her Master’s Master’s degree from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.