We’re very happy to announce that Meaghan Tobin will likely be becoming a member of the Enterprise desk because the Asia know-how correspondent.
Meaghan involves us from The Washington Put up, the place she wrote about China’s rising affect from Taipei. Earlier than that, she was a reporter on the nonprofit tech media start-up Remainder of World and at The South China Morning Put up in Hong Kong, the place she lined information in Asia and the Pacific.
She will likely be based mostly in Taipei, the place she’s going to be a part of Chris Buckley, Paul Mozur and Amy Chang Chien. Meaghan has spent 5 years dwelling between Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, as a scholar and now as a journalist.
Meaghan’s reporting will likely be centered on China, however her tales, and her curiosity, will enable her to attach thematic dots to different elements of Asia, Europe and the US. She’s going to work every day with Wealthy Barbieri in Seoul and Pui-Wing Tam and her tech group based mostly in San Francisco, in addition to Worldwide desk editors together with Gillian Wong, our China editor, and the opposite Occasions journalists working in Seoul and all through Asia, led by the Asia editor, Doug Schorzman.
Meaghan is a graduate of New York College and The Fletcher Faculty of Regulation and Diplomacy at Tufts College. She is within the tenth yr of what she expects will likely be a lifelong journey of studying Mandarin. Meaghan likes to prepare dinner with mates, way back labored as a pastry chef and may sometimes nonetheless be discovered proofing a brioche whereas on deadline.
We sit up for her becoming a member of the workforce.