About

Nisha

Nisha Chittal is a writer and blogger focusing on politics, new media, women, and the Middle East. Nisha’s work has been featured in NPR.org, WashingtonPost.com, The European Courier, and INTHEFRAY Magazine.

Nisha Chittal has over three years of experience editing & writing about politics and technology for the web at a variety of online publications and blogs. As a writer, blogger, and digital media strategist, she is fascinated by the intersection of media, politics, and the internet.

Her work has been featured and quoted in The Nation, the Huffington Post, Jezebel,  Politico, Mediaite, WashingtonPost.com, NPR.org, Aol’s Lemondrop.com, ReadWriteWeb,  and EuropeanCourier.org. She has interviewed former White House officials, authors, pundits, and Congressional candidates. She has also worked on online communications strategy for Fortune 500 corporations, authors, Congressional candidates, and writers.

She first got her start in online media in 2006, writing political columns for a popular website for college women. She currently is a digital strategist at New Media Strategies. In her free time, she regularly writes about media, politics, technology, and women at Mediaite.com, Lemondrop.com, CitizenJanePolitics.com (where she reported on the 2008 presidential elections), and Care2.com. She also writes about politics, new media, women’s issues, and Middle Eastern politics on her personal blog, Politicoholic.