Mitra Kalita to join LA Times as manging editor for editorial strategy

S. Mitra Kalita, executive editor-at-large at Quartz, will join the Los Angeles Times as managing editor for editorial strategy, LA Times publisher Austin Beutner and editor Davan Maharaj told staff in an email on Wednesday.
Kalita, who is also an adjunct faculty member at Poynter, will be one of three managing editors, joining Marc Duvoisin, who is managing editor for news, and Larry Ingrassia, who will become managing editor for new ventures.
In October of last year, Quartz moved Kalita into the executive editor-at-large role. . She was previously the ideas editor. Kalita will be teaching at the Online News Association-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media next month.
http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/327839/s-mitra-kalita-heads-to-the-l-a-times-to-develop-and-refine-new-styles-of-journalism/