Tech in Asia is looking for a senior journalist/editor to help shape our coverage of the tech economy across Southeast Asia and the broader Asian tech scene.
Our newsroom focuses on tech businesses, emerging technologies including AI, capital flows, market shifts, and the executives building and running these companies.
You’ll help push reporters towards providing deeper reporting and giving clear insight into how tech companies are built, scaled, and financed across the region. You will also be expected to write your own stories, setting the standard for junior reporters on your team to follow.
The role reports to the Managing Editor.
Responsibilities
Report and write original stories on technology companies and the evolving tech economy in Southeast Asia and Asia
Develop sources among founders, operators, investors, and tech executives to produce exclusives content
Identify emerging trends, business shifts, and important developments in the region’s tech industry
Contribute analysis and reporting on tech businesses, emerging tech, AI, venture capital, and capital flows
Edit and provide feedback on stories from reporters across the newsroom, helping improve clarity, structure, and depth
Work with reporters to refine angles, strengthen sourcing, and elevate the quality of coverage
Contribute to our daily and AI-focused newsletters, as well as other editorial initiatives
Support the distribution of stories across social media and digital platforms
Requirements
Excellent command of written and spoken English
Several years of experience covering technology, startups, business, or finance
Strong editing experience, with the ability to improve clarity, structure, and depth
Proven ability to develop original reporting, including building sources and verifying information
Strong news judgment and understanding of the tech and business landscape in Southeast Asia and the wider region
Comfortable interpreting company strategies, funding dynamics, financial statements, and business models
Ability to manage multiple stories, edits, and deadlines simultaneously
Comfortable working remotely in a distributed newsroom
Traits
Strong editorial instinct for stories that matter to founders, investors, and tech executives
Good understanding about how technology businesses are built, scaled, and monetized
Clear communicator who can provide constructive editorial feedback
Organized and proactive in managing editorial priorities
Independent and self-directed in a remote newsroom
Bonus
Experience editing reporters and shaping newsroom coverage
Experience covering tech companies, venture capital, emerging tech, AI, and the broader tech economy
Existing network of sources among founders, operators, investors, or tech executives
Experience producing newsletters or editorial products for professional audiences
