Akash Mehta is the editor-in-chief of New York Focus, New York's only statewide non-profit news publication.

Akash co-founded New York Focus in October 2020 to help fill a critical gap in New York's media ecosystem. As nearly half of the state’s newspapers died in the last two decades, rigorous coverage of Albany slowed to a trickle. New York Focus works to bring accountability to a state government that spends more money each year than 90 percent of the world's countries and tops national corruption rankings.