VTDigger has announced that Geeta Anand, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author and university administrator, has been named the organization’s next editor-in-chief. She will begin her new role July 1.
Anand has worked as a journalist for nearly 30 years as a foreign correspondent in India for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, covered City Hall for the Boston Globe and wrote “The Cure,” which was adapted into the film, “Extraordinary Measures” starring Harrison Ford. Most recently, she served as dean of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
In the early 1990s, Anand covered southern Vermont and the city of Rutland for The Rutland Herald, where she uncovered across-the-board errors in Vermont by one of the nation’s biggest credit reporting companies, prompting Congress to pass a new law.
“Geeta Anand is not only one of the most extraordinary journalists of our time, she’s also a visionary with a gift for inspiring and empowering those around her,” CEO Sky Barsch said. “The excitement we feel about her joining our team is matched only by the impact her leadership will have on the state of Vermont.”