Holding the editorial reins of Global Voices has become, after 10 years,​ ​a​n increasingly complicated task. Past managing editors understood this well, and so does current managing editor Sahar Habib Ghazi. But unlike those who came before her, the Global Voices community doesn't know Sahar very well, so the idea emerged to talk with her to learn ​more about her, her goals and her concerns for the site. Through a small crowdsourcing process, various members of the community submitted questions. Not all questions reached the final stage due to space constraints, but the interview was thorough nonetheless. Read for yourself!​ Global Voices (GV) : Can you tell us about yourself and what you did before joining Global Voices? Sahar Ghazi (SG): I’m the managing editor at Global Voices. I experiment with strategies and think of ways to facilitate and support our unique, borderless community and completely virtual newsroom. I also help craft editorial and social media policies, plan special coverage and manage partnerships. Before joining this amazing community in 2012, I worked as a journalist in Pakistan where I covered war, elections, earthquakes, floods, human smuggling, and kidney tourism, always searching for hope in my storytelling. In 2006, I helped launch the country's first English-language TV station. I did a lot of behind-the-scenes work at DawnNews, breaking news and running live broadcasts. In 2009, I produced a TV series on US-Pakistan relations, called the Disposable Ally. I was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 2011; there I explored creating citizen-generated content for mainstream media in Pakistan through Hosh media. When I’m not sitting in my GV portal overlooking San Francisco, I’m cooking a few feet away in our kitchen, running on a trail close to our place, or playing with my 2-year-old daughter Nava at a park. GV: Your work at GV until some weeks ago has been mostly behind the scenes. Can you tell us a bit about it? SG: Whenever someone asks me what Global Voices is like, I say it is the kindest place in the world. I joined this wonderful community as the deputy editor in June 2012, while I was almost 8-months pregnant. How many organizations do you know that would hire someone that is pregnant? My first formal interaction with the community was during an interview with Georgia, Ivan and Solana on Skype. Before they could launch into any questions, I said I wanted to tell them about something important that I couldn’t fit on my resume – my swollen belly. I told them that if this was an in-person interview, that would be the first thing they would notice about me, but since this is a virtual process, I felt compelled to let them know that I was 6-months pregnant. They started laughing and said Solana’s pregnant too! After I was hired they told me that my immediate honesty, and concern about their time before myself, was one of the reasons they thought I’d be a good fit for the community. Since joining GV I have tried to facilitate our community of writers and editors by launching discussions about reporting, sourcing and writing practices and have tried to create tools for them to use. Along with our news editor Lauren Finch, I’ve worked on revamping our Style Guide (GV Style Wiki) and tried to streamline our newsroom workflow to focus more on story structure and news writing standards. Through community participation and endorsement, I also helped put together GV’s first editorial code. Even though we made a name for ourselves as a credible news source many years ago, we never had a formal code until 2013. I thought it was important to have something in writing — for transparency and for our authors and editors to refer to. Some of our community members and authors are at the forefront of freedom of speech, minority rights and Internet freedom movements in their countries. This gives us great access to underreported issues and stories within those communities, but it can also raise some conflict of interest concerns. So we needed to find a way to tailor existing editorial codes for our unique circumstances. It took a few months of back and forth with our community and editors, but I think we reached a sweet spot in the final code that everyone endorsed in August. When I joined GV, I was soon manning most of our social media accounts on my own. It was exciting to see our social media followers and traffic grow, but it was also overwhelming. (We currently have 74K+ followers on Twitter and 61K+ on Facebook.) So I asked our community for help, we crafted some guidelines and now we have an awesome team led by Asteris, Rami Al Hames, Rayna, Kevin Rennie, Mohamed Adel, Chris Moya amongst others on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and Google + accounts.