Rest of World hires Jeelani as Asia editor

Mehboob Jeelani

Rest of World has hired Mehboob Jeelani as its Asia editor.

He will start in February.

Jeelani will drive coverage of technological transformation and its impact in the region, primarily focusing on South and Southeast Asia.

He has more than a decade of experience working as a reporter and editor in India, the U.S., and Turkey, covering politics, culture, and technology. Most recently, he led TRT World’s digital newsroom, overseeing and editing coverage of global politics, economics, and technology.

Previously, Jeelani worked as a reporter at Fortune magazine in New York, reporting on big data, emerging technologies, and drone disruption. He spent several years as a staff writer at The Caravan magazine in New Delhi, where he reported on India’s political and economic transformation, tech-driven urbanization, developmental economics, and lingering conflicts.

Jeelani graduated with an M.A. in journalism and politics from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.