Asia Editor

The role

The Asia Editor will lead an expansion effort across digital platforms and live journalism. This person will build the Asia-based reporting team and products while chronicling forces shaping the region including trade, technology, and politics.

What you will do

• Work with Semafor’s leaders to shape our Asia vision and product.
• Help recruit for and build Semafor’s Asia-based reporting team.
• Lead the development of Semafor’s Asia briefings and products.
• Anchor Semafor’s coverage across Asia across all platforms and live journalism.
• Write stories about the region focusing on business, economics, technology, and energy.
• Participate in event moderation and media appearances on TV, radio, and podcasts.
• Collaborate closely with other parts of Semafor’s global newsroom and audience teams.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of journalism experience, including relevant experience covering Asia
• A track record of newsroom leadership
• Experience and interest in global financial and business journalism
• A strategic, sophisticated approach to identifying themes and focuses of coverage
• Ability to bring speedy insight to big news stories
• Flair and personality to writing
• A passion for world events and issues and a broad interest in a wide range of subjects
• Broad media consumption habits across conventional and unconventional sources
• Eagerness to be part of a dynamic work environment demanding initiative, flexibility, and a willingness to jump in
• Experience working with diverse teams with teammates from many different backgrounds
• Diligence and reliability to work without hands-on supervision
• The ability to think constantly about story distribution and audiences

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy

About the company

Semafor is a global news platform. It aims to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure transparency.