Shani Olisa Hilton (born 1986) is an American journalist and media executive, currently working as the Deputy Managing Editor at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to the Times, Hilton was the executive editor at BuzzFeed News.

Early life

Growing up with a journalist father, Hilton began working on the student newspaper in middle school and continued at Bear Creek High School in Stockton, California. She attended Howard University in D.C. and studied journalism.

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Career

Only a few years out of college, Hilton joined Buzzfeed in 2013 as senior editor, after working at Washington City Paper and NBC Washington. She was promoted to executive editor in September 2014. Politico has called her "the youthful conscience of Buzzfeed News" and Recode calls her "Buzzfeed's Newsmaker in Chief." The New York Observer named her to a list of "10 Players in Media You Must Hire."

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Hilton is regularly cited as an expert on topics like journalistic ethics, millennial audiences for newsmedia, and diversity in the newsroom. She wrote a widely cited essay on the subject in 2014, entitled "Building A Diverse Newsroom Is Work."

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References

Living people

1986 births

African-American women journalists

African-American journalists

21st-century American non-fiction writers

BuzzFeed people

Howard University alumni

Writers from California

American women non-fiction writers

21st-century American women writers

21st-century African-American women writers

21st-century African-American writers

20th-century African-American people

20th-century African-American women