Anushka Patil has been promoted to the post of senior social editor at the New York Times.
Patil will continue to work closely with Audience Product to develop reader-facing products that attract and retain new audiences and to work on internal tools to help the social team do their work better.
Previously, Patil was working as a news curation editor at BuzzFeed News and before that she was a social media intern at the company. She has also served as a junior analyst/content and SEO at Perfect Search Media.
Patil was also a fellow at Northwestern University Knight Lab and has held the posts of assistant web designer and news and engagement intern at Northwestern University and Reverb Technologies, respectively.
Patil is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and computer science.