AmericanLawyer.com executive editor Sarkar joins AP

Pia Sarkar, the executive editor for AmericanLawyer.com, has been hired to be deputy editor for the east for The Associated Press, charged with helping to oversee news coverage in 10 states.

Sarkar is a longtime business journalist who has also worked for TheStreet, Crain’s and the business desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.

An AP story states, “Sarkar, 42, served most recently as executive editor of The American Lawyer website and the Am Law Daily newsletters, where she provided a strategic direction for the site and led a team onsite and remotely in producing competitive content on national law firm business.

“Sarkar spent seven years as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered some of the most iconic companies in the area, including Gap, Apple and Levi Strauss. At the Daily Journal legal publication, where she spent three years as associate editor, Sarkar oversaw coverage of California’s Proposition 8 gay marriage ban and its eventual undoing on appeal. She also worked as a reporter at TheStreet.com, a financial news site, covering national retail chains and major internet companies; at Pensions & Investments; at The Record of Woodland Park, New Jersey; and for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island.

“Outside the newsroom, Sarkar served as president, vice-president and board member of the Asian American Journalists Association in San Francisco.”

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