Sasha Heller Joins the Atlanta Jewish Times
The industry veteran will help build out the AJT's digital presence, especially on social media.
Veteran journalist Sasha Heller has joined the Atlanta Jewish Times staff as online content coordinator. He will assist in expanding the AJT’s digital footprint, especially in social media.
The 42-year-old has spent the previous decade working in various newsrooms, from the Alabama Gulf Coast to the Mississippi Delta and South Padre Island to Denver.
Most recently, Heller served as managing editor of the Aurora Sentinel in the metro Denver area. Before that, he spent four years leading design teams for GateHouse Media at its Center for News & Design in Austin, Texas. In that time, Heller designed sports sections and front pages for nearly 50 publications, including: The Providence Journal (R.I.), Oklahoma City Oklahoman (Okla.) and Columbus Dispatch (Ohio).
“I am excited to bring my experience and expertise to the Atlanta Jewish Times and be a part of the local Jewish culture,” Heller said. “I grew up reading the AJT and its coverage often came up in casual conversations in our home, so it’s been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. And now I get to help produce it.”
Heller graduated from Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Ga. in 2008 with a degree in English. He is a Dunwoody native and graduated from North Atlanta High School in 1997. He had his bar mitzvah at Congregation Beth Shalom and was an active member of Chai USY with Ahavath Achim synagogue while in high school.
The award-winning writer has earned a Mississippi Press Association first-place Best Investigative Series award for a seven-part series on an historic audit of the Sunflower County School System by the Mississippi State Department of Education. He also earned a Texas Panhandle Press Association second-place award for Best Features for a special report linking the deaths of local cattle to plastic bags that were blowing across the highway from a nearby Walmart.
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