Medill and SESP junior Anavi Prakash will be The Daily Northwestern’s next editor in chief, the paper’s publisher announced Monday.
A current managing editor, Prakash previously served as city editor, multimedia managing editor, development & recruitment editor and audio editor for the paper.
“It’s always just really exciting because I get to see all of my friends and also learn so much about Evanston and Northwestern and just really engage with our coverage,” Prakash said. “Every day is a good day at The Daily.”
Prakash plans to expand The Daily’s multimedia coverage, encourage reporter input and establish a desk dedicated to Spanish reporting and translation.
She will serve in the role for the Spring and Fall Quarters. Prakash said she is excited to help recruit new reporters at the beginning of the 2026-27 academic year by establishing opportunities to get involved with The Daily outside of writing stories.
“We’ve always said we’re a print paper first, but multimedia is the future,” Prakash said. “This is the time when we have so many awesome print reporters, so many awesome multimedia reporters, to really bring those two together and show off our best work on both sides of it.”
Over the summer, Prakash will intern at The Baltimore Sun.
Students Publishing Company Board of Directors Chair John Byrne wrote that the board was “very impressed” by her experience and plans to grow multimedia reporting at The Daily, especially over social media.
“We were also appreciative of her overall leadership qualities and vision that has already – and will no doubt continue – to earn her the respect and trust of both the newsroom and our readers at large,” Byrne wrote in an email to The Daily.
Prakash will succeed current Editor in Chief and Medill senior Emily Lichty, who similarly applauded her experience with both the print and multimedia sides of the paper.
Lichty added that she “cannot imagine anybody better to take on the role.”
“She also cares about the newsroom deeply and is just such a positive light here that I know everybody is just so excited for her to take on this leadership role,” Lichty said. “I cannot wait to see what she does as editor in chief.”
Prakash said she will work with Lichty to learn “how to do this very big, but very exciting job” and continue overseeing The Daily’s coverage for the rest of Winter Quarter.
As editor in chief, she added that she hopes to listen to and foster others’ ideas for the paper.
“Just saying ‘yes’ to ideas and hearing them out and helping people bring their visions to life is something I’m really excited to do,” Prakash said. “That collaborative process has been one of my favorite things to work on at The Daily.”
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