I am a senior editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and a former staff editor for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Foreign Policy, and Bloomberg. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere.

Stories I edited have been recognized by the New York Press Club, the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, the Deadline Club, and the American Society of Magazine Editors, and have been adapted into acclaimed documentaries. I also served as a co-producer and writer for Kabul Falling, a Peabody-nominated eight-part narrative podcast chronicling the fallout of the end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and as a story editor for The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly. 

You can reach me at: sid.mahanta@gmail.com, sid.mahanta@protonmail.com, or on Twitter @sidhubaba.