New York Times associate managing editor Karron Skog sent out the following on Wednesday:
Please join us in welcoming Hasit Shah to the London Home Team! We’re so delighted to have him on board as a senior staff editor.
Hasit joins us from Quartz, where he spent two years as news editor. He began his career at BBC News, where he spent more than a decade covering national and international news from London, his hometown, and on location as a reporter and field producer in South Asia, Europe and Africa.
He was subsequently a Nieman-Berkman Fellow at Harvard University in 2014, and remained until 2019 in a research capacity.
In his spare time, Hasit is a taekwondo coach, an occasional footballer, and a fan of Liverpool FC. He is also slowly writing a book about Prince.
Hasit started his new role on Monday, May 16. Welcome, Hasit!
