Andrew Murfett, senior managing editor at LinkedIn, interviewed Semafor executive editor Gina Chua — who worked in leadership roles at Reuters and The Wall Street Journal — about her career.
Here is an excerpt:
I was the first Asian to be editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal. There were some cultural issues. The previous editors tended to be American. I would go to, say, a printing class plant opening in Korea and, essentially no one would expect that I was the one who was the editor. If I went with my boss, a white American man, the security people would try to stop me from following them in. This was the late 1990s, remember, and I think the cultural references and the expectation that an Asian would be in charge of anything that was a Western organization, people weren’t used to that. But that’s changed quite a bit now.
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