Charlottesville Tomorrow has hired S&P Global’s Akash Sinha as its managing editor.
Tamica Jean-Charles of Charlottesville Tomorrow writes, “Sinha will join us to take the lead on giving our team direction and making sure our audiences keep getting great local news. He moved to Charlottesville 20 years ago to study English literature at the University of Virginia (the same UVA degree our neighborhoods reporter Erin O’Hare graduated with in 2011). In 2007, Sinha started working at SNL Financial, a financial news and data provider, as a reporter and after eight months, became an editor. Sinha continued moving up the leadership ranks, eventually leading the global newsroom team of over 350 journalists for S&P Global Market Intelligence.
“After leaving S&P Global, Sinha crafted a list of what he wanted in his next role. At the top, he wrote that he wanted an editorial role that is focused on people. He wanted to pivot from business journalism to service journalism.
“‘I loved the management, editing and people management side of things — that was probably one of the more rewarding parts of my previous news jobs,’ said Sinha. ‘I wanted to get back to a purpose-driven news job.'”
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