Ismat Sarah Mangla

Content Director and Managing Editor in Manhattan, New York

I’m an award-winning journalist, content strategist and newsroom leader with nearly two decades of experience in print, television and digital media. I specialize in developing content, editorial and SEO strategy; telling stories with compelling data, real people and elegant prose; and building and leading successful content teams.

By day, I manage a team of 25 staff editors and writers and a network of 100 freelance writers to produce and optimize personal finance SEO content for LendingTree. By night, I lead a volunteer newsroom at Analyst News, a nonprofit, international media organization focused on justice. We publish thoughtful, clear-eyed journalism and critical analysis of current social issues and events.

You can find my byline in Money, Fortune, Time, CNN, Al Jazeera, Quartz, The Washington Post and The Detroit Free Press, among others. My reporting has earned a Gerald Loeb Award and finalist nomination, a Henry Luce Award, a SABEW Best in Business Award, a Deadline Club finalist nomination and a National Magazine Award finalist nomination. In a previous life, I was also the founder and editor of Nirali, a popular web magazine for the South Asian diaspora.

Bottom line? I love good content, and I love leading teams — and I feel lucky to do this work for a living.

While I'm a Midwestern girl at heart, I live in New York City, where I spend way too much money on cabs.

  • Work
    • LendingTree and Analyst News
  • Education
    • University of Michigan
    • Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism