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Neema Roshania Patel passed away on October 24 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. She was a founding editor of The Washington Post’s news site for millennial women, The Lily, and most recently a member of the Next Generation audience development team, which aims to attract a younger and more diverse readership. She was 35.Her spouse, Akshar Patel, claimed that gastric cancer was to blame.Ms. Roshania Patel joined The Post in 2016 as a digital editor after working for print, online, and broadcast sources. The following year, she assisted in the debut of The Lily. She expanded the brand in newsletters and on social media sites like Instagram and Twitter as deputy editor of The Lily, a website that focuses on original and carefully chosen content for and about women.Ms. Roshania Patel described The Lily as “a halting spot on the internet where we could gather together the best news on women and gender” on the podcast “Motherly.”Ms. Roshania Patel is a “vibrant” colleague who “discovered our greatest stories and brought prominence to individuals and ideas who had been long disregarded,” according to Amy King, The Lily’s original editor in chief and current creative director and deputy managing editor at the Los Angeles Times.King listed the “Anxiety Chronicles” mental health series and a book club that promoted works by female authors, frequently women of color, as some of the initiatives Ms. Roshania Patel oversaw.Thanks for reading from Ghsplash a news publishing website from Ghana. Share this article, For spelling mistakes and other related issues contact us
