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Mallika Mitra

Mallika Mitra

Mallika Mitra is a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a writer and editor at Money, where she wrote a weekly newsletter about investing, and a wide range of stories on meme stocks, crypto, generational investing trends and more. Her work can also be found in Bloomberg News, CNBC, Business Insider and The Wall Street Journal's Buy Side, among other places. Mallika has a M.A. in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a McGraw scholar for business journalism, and a B.A. in English from Kalamazoo College.

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