Monica Akhtar has joined Politico as a senior video producer. She comes from The Washington Post where she held the post of video producer.
Akhtar was also a video producer at USA Today Sports Media Group and a video production intern at American Enterprise Institute. She was also a freelance correspondent at Worchester Telegram and Gazette.
She has also worked as a reporter at Somerville Community Access Television, and a reporter at Inside Boston on butv10. She was also an editorial intern for The Bond Buyer at SourceMedia.
She has also served as a reporting intern at Connection Newspapers.
Akhtar is a B.A. in communication and journalism from Boston University.