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Tasneem raja
Tasneem Raja is a journalist and editor. She has worked for Mother Jones, The Chicago Reader and NPR Code Switch.
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Raja attended the University of California Berkeley School of Journalism. She was interactive editor at Mother Jones and a features reporter at The Chicago Reader before joining NPR at the Code Switch team in January 2015, becoming senior digital editor. At NPR, Raja led the team developing the Code Switch podcast; launched in May 2016, the podcast quickly drew praise with Los Angeles Magazine saying, "NPR’s 'Code Switch' began as a popular blog, but its evolution into a podcast seems natural...it explores issues of race, culture, and politics in a personal way that flourishes in an audio format."
Raja has been particularly noted for her accomplishments with technology in journalism. While news apps editor at The Bay Citizen, Raja's "team built a Bike Accident Tracker and a government salary database, among other things." She's prominently written about diversity in computer science as well as "brogrammer" culture in Silicon Valley.