S. Mitra Kalita | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by S. Mitra Kalita

S. Mitra Kalita is the executive editor at large for Quartz.

“Since 2015, I have dutifully penned these predictions and try to do so, year after year, with a sense of idealism and optimism. I feel neither right now.”

“Everything sucks. Good luck to you.”

“It’s no wonder that news consumption is plummeting and users are left feeling confused or overwhelmed.”

In 2022, it’s all about community

“The silver lining of Covid-19: Everyone’s a change agent now, whether they like it or not.”

The race to 2021

“As we talk about converting users into subscribers, we need to embrace a similar (and possibly uncomfortable) conversion from news into information of value or need.”

The arc of news and audience

“There’s been a reckoning in digital media, and hopefully, a recognition that the very thing we once decried as commodity journalism is also necessary journalism. Like milk and coffee and electricity, news is needed. Facts, verified, analyzed, contextualized, matter.”

It’s called reporting

“Shoe-leather reporting is rewarded because it represents the best of the Internet: authenticity, intimacy, access, an emotional connection.”

Authenticity, expertise, and intimacy

“I predict we’ll get a lot more comfortable with our passions, obsessions, biases, confusion, hypotheses, addictions, sordid pasts, tense futures.”