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E-mail: rsehgal@herald.com |
RITU SEHGAL is one of the senior-most South Asian journalists in the United States and has more than 17 years in the newspaper business. She is an assistant managing editor at The Miami Herald, overseeing the Sunday and Monday editions of the paper as well as a news enterprise section called Focus. The Sunday paper has the largest circulation of the week, about 425,000 papers. She was also this year part of the Herald team that won a Pultizer for its coverage of the INS raid on the Elian Gonzalez home (the INS raided the house on a Saturday, her first day as the new Sunday 1A editor). She has been at The Herald for four years, during which time she also ran the national desk, was an editor on the citydesk overseeing coverage of health and social service issues, as well as several major projects. These projects included a year-long series on welfare reform's impact on South Florida; a seven-part series on how more money being spent on early childhood education and health can impact child development in later years; and a series of investigative stories on the dismal condition of South Florida nursing homes. She also was the Herald newsroom's budget administrator and recruiter for about a year. Before joining the Herald, she was national/foreign editor at The Detroit News, where she also held a variety of other editing positions, including deputy national/foreign editor and assistant business editor. Before The News, she was a reporter and editor at The Detroit Free Press for five years. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism degree from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a law degree from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. She was a member of the Michigan Bar. She also was a Maynard Institute fellow at Northwestern University for seven weeks, and taught part-time at Oakland University for three years. -30- |
