Tabassum Zakaria will be joining The Miami Herald as deputy managing editor for local news next month. She currently serves as managing editor at McClatchy, where she led the Washington bureau. She has also held the post of Washington editor.
She has also worked as a consultant at International Finance Corporation, where she was editor of the “IFC FY15 Annual Report on Financial Risk Management and Capital Adequacy.”
She was also with Thomson Reuters for over 24 years, where she held various roles, including White House correspondent, congressional correspondent, banking correspondent, Dallas correspondent, and deputy editor-in-charge of capital markets in New York.
Zakaria has a M.A. in journalism from New York University.
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Great hire by the Miami Herald