satta@patch.com

914-563-9239

Originally from: Providence, RI

Birthday: November 18

Bio: Satta is the Editorial Operations Manager for Patch. She serves as the chief of staff for Patch's editor-in-chief, assisting with prioritizing projects, communications and fielding interdepartmental requests. She also serves as a liaison for all other departments within the company, including thr National Sales team, by providing editorial data and information and helping to execute client requests. She also works on various short and long range editorial and interdepartmental projects that have a direct impact on Patch's more than 1,000 employees in the field.

Satta was previously an Associate Regional Editor for Patch sites in the Hudson Valley. Before that, she served as Local Editor for Rye Patch, launching the site in December 2009 and spearheading the site's coverage until March 2011.

She has been passionate and excited about journalism for as long as she can remember. She spent most of her college career obsessing about story leads and tight deadlines, eventually earning bachelor's and master's degrees  in journalism and new media from Boston University and Northwestern University.

She's worked for the Orlando Sentinel, CNN and Everyblock.com, another hyper-local website. At the Sentinel, she covered everything from a cross-dressing armed thief at Walmart to Florida prisons upgrading to digital television. 

As a master's fellow at CNN's DC bureau,  she helped producers research and gather video footage for stories that aired on the network. At Everyblock, she geocoded content in news articles. She's also interned for the Columbia Journalism Review and CBS News London. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Defender, the Chicago Journal and the Northwest Indiana Times. 

Beliefs 

At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible and human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal certain key beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. 

This disclosure is not a license for our editors to inject these beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that our beliefs are on the record will force us to be ever mindful to write, report, and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you, the user, ever think you see evidence that we failed in this mission, we wholeheartedly invite you to let us know.

Politics

• How would you describe your political beliefs?

Registered independent. I can fall anywhere on the political spectrum depending on the issue.

Religion

• How religious would you say you are? Casual, observant, devout, non-religious? 

               I attended Catholic school for eight years, but I'd say I'm more spiritual than religious.

Local Hot Button Issues

• What do you think are the most important issues facing the community?

               Taxes seem to be a hot-button issue in both the city and town of Rye. Traffic issues, such as safe routes to school, are also important to residents. 

• Where do you stand on each of these issues?

             I'm covering this stuff, so shouldn't I be neutral?