[5] She is also a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University,[3] and co-founder and director of URL Media, a network of Black and Brown community news outlets that share content and revenue.

[6][7][8] Mitra Kalita was the managing editor for editorial strategy at the Los Angeles Times from 2015 to 2016.

[1] She also worked at the Wall Street Journal[11][12][13][14] where she directed coverage of the great recession [15] and helped launch Livemint, a business newspaper in New Delhi, India[15] along with founding editor Raju Narisetti.

She also served as a story consultant on Season 3 of Apple TV's The Morning Show.

Kalita was born in Brooklyn and was raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico, and New Jersey.