Semafor
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2022
📱 Media
Media
Semafor is a global news organization that focuses on providing transparent and intelligent news coverage across various domains including politics, business, technology, and security. It offers insights into global elections, net zero initiatives, and geopolitical dynamics, especially within regions such as the Middle East, Africa, and the Gulf. With offices spanning locations like Washington, D. C. , Brussels, Lagos, Riyadh, and Beijing, Semafor delivers news through an array of formats including daily newsletters, podcasts, and events. The company emphasizes providing a comprehensive worldview by shedding light on crucial international stories and fostering informed public discussion.
Asia Editor
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Semafor
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2022
📱 Media
Media
Semafor is a global news organization that focuses on providing transparent and intelligent news coverage across various domains including politics, business, technology, and security. It offers insights into global elections, net zero initiatives, and geopolitical dynamics, especially within regions such as the Middle East, Africa, and the Gulf. With offices spanning locations like Washington, D. C. , Brussels, Lagos, Riyadh, and Beijing, Semafor delivers news through an array of formats including daily newsletters, podcasts, and events. The company emphasizes providing a comprehensive worldview by shedding light on crucial international stories and fostering informed public discussion.
📋 Description
• 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 that best cater to our readers, viewers, and listeners. • Anchor Semafor’s coverage across Asia — across all platforms and live journalism. • Write must-read stories about the region, with a focus on business, economics, technology, and energy for a sophisticated audience who live in, or have interest and connections to Asia. • Participate in event moderation, as well as media appearances on TV, radio, and podcasts. • Collaborate closely with other parts of Semafor’s global newsroom and audience teams.
🎯 Requirements
• 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 across sectors and borders. • Bring speedy insight to big news stories, and 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 wherever needed to help the team succeed. • 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, across many forms of media and platforms.
🏖️ Benefits
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy to our full-time, salaried employees who may take paid time off as-needed without a prescribed limit or defined balance.
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