It is not often one earns praise from their bosses for writing and sending flawless emails while on the move.
Consider it journalism’s modern version of shooting arrows while at full gallop.
And so in this era of ceaseless flow of tweets, data, and press releases, Mitra Kalita is ‘The Queen from Queens’.
This past week, the former Quartz editor who is born and raised in New York, was appointed to the prestigious post of Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times. The Times is one of the largest dailies printed in the US, and the largest on the West Coast. 
“Mitra is a first-rate editor, writer, entrepreneur, and unparalleled sender of emails on the go. She greets mediocrity with impatience, and works through the night—literally, it often seems—to be present for our staff overseas and get things as close to right as possible,” Quartz Editor-in-Chief Kevin Delaney wrote in an email to his newsroom.
Mitra moves to the west coast just in time for spring but more importantly at a time when the print media world is at a crossroads.
"I am so honored to be joining the LA Times at this critical time in its history and that of our industry,” Kalita wrote to The South Asian Post in an online interview.
“There are few jobs in journalism that would make me uproot my family, leave a neighborhood and friends I love, and exit an innovative startup like Quartz. And yet being the managing editor of one of the nation's greatest newspapers — and all of its related platforms — is such a job." 
Kalita will be overseeing editorial strategy, according to memos that went out from both outlets this afternoon.
Born in Brooklyn, Kalita was raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico and New Jersey—with regular trips to her grandparents’ villages in Assam, India.
At Quartz. she served as the site's founding ideas editor, and prior to that worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Mint a business paper she launched in New Delhi.
Kalita is the author of three books related to migration and globalization, and speaks seven languages.
For more on her work, follow her @mitrakalita. Her website is www.mitrakalita.com.