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Hi, I’m Divya.
I'm Divya, and I'm a newsletters strategist at Yahoo News. I previously worked on newsletters, social media and audience development at the Detroit Free Press and Planet Detroit, and I covered New York City news for THE CITY.
I have experience in features journalism, business and economics reporting, audience and community engagement, social strategy and blogging. tl;dr I've flexed my reading and writing muscles for as long as I could do both of those things. I'm not sore yet!
Other things I enjoy: solving crosswords, lifting weights and mailing handwritten letters and postcards. (I've become a big fan of "catching up on my correspondence.")
I have a Masters in engagement journalism and business and economics journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a Bachelor’s in magazine journalism from Syracuse University.
rECENT WORK
The Yodel, a weekday morning newsletter, for Yahoo News
Sign here to stay: Makeshift legal clinics are helping asylum seekers apply for protected status — but they need support, too. in the New York City News Service
What comes next for plummeting pandemic-darling stocks Pfizer and Moderna in the Times Square Investment Journal
How The U.S. Is Retooling its Auto Industry to Go Electric — and What Stands in the Way in Issue Number One
How lower tax credits are worsening the ability of low- and middle-income families to weather inflation in Issue Number One
Quilter who spent 42 years on death row opens art exhibit in Detroit in the Detroit Free Press
How New Yorkers Can Claim Over $17 Billion of Their Lost Money in THE CITY
How to Become a New York City Tour Guide in THE CITY
How to Throw a Block Party in New York City in THE CITY
Voting in Other Languages: Registration Hindered by Lack of Translation in THE CITY
Participatory budgeting is happening right now in New York City. Here’s how to make your voice heard in THE CITY
How to Film the NYPD or Get Body Camera Footage in THE CITY
Should You Give a Candidate Your Signature? A Voter’s Guide to Petitioning in THE CITY
How to File Your Taxes for Free in New York City in THE CITY
What Voters Should Know about 2023 Elections in NYC in THE CITY
What a Community Education Council Does and How to Join One in THE CITY
The “Customer is King” motto has invisibilised the delivery rider in The News Minute
Assault to slut shaming, Chennai schools have been getting away with abuse for decades in The News Minute
Let’s try and not be a cry-baby in my newsletter Dirty Laundry
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