Nikkei Asia wins National Press Foundation award for trade reporting

Nikkei Asia has won the Hinrich Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on Trade from the National Press Foundation for its “fascinating” coverage of how the pandemic, war and the escalating U.S.-China strife over semiconductors combined to upend global supply chains in 2022. The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria won honorable mention for a three-month-long investigation that exposed […]
Nikkei and S&P Global form partnership

Nikkei and S&P Global will collaborate to develop a new service that will use artificial intelligence to distribute news and market-related content about Asian companies. An excerpt from the announcement reads: “The partners will also explore developing a database centered on Asian companies and making Nikkei’s original content more broadly available. As part of the […]
Nikkei Asia promotes Sharp to politics and economics news editor

Nikkei Asia has tapped Andy Sharp as politics and economics news editor. Recently, Sharp served as deputy politics and economics editor. Before that, Sharp worked at Bloomberg News as an economy reporter and then a politics editor for Japan and the Koreas. He was copy editor at Nikkei and worked freelance. Sharp graduated from Sheffield […]
Nikkei Asia promotes Sharp to politics and economics news editor
Nikkei Asia has tapped Andy Sharp as politics and economics news editor. Recently, Sharp served as deputy politics and economics editor. Before that, Sharp worked at Bloomberg News as an economy reporter and then a politics editor for Japan and the Koreas. He was copy editor at Nikkei and worked freelance. Sharp graduated from Sheffield […]
Nikkei Asia taps Coleman as opinion editor

Nikkei Asia has named Zach Coleman opinion editor, following the departure of Jason Koutsoukis. Recently, Coleman served as deputy editor. Coleman has written and edited business news stories for more than 20 years, having mainly been based in Hong Kong since 1999. He contributed to USA Today, Quartz, FT Wealth, Charlotte Observer, Boston Globe and […]
Financial Times, Nikkei Asia partner on digital offering

Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times have come together to launch a new offering that provides readers in Asia access to both publications via a joint digital subscription. Readers who subscribe to Nikkei Asia will receive a month’s access to the FT, and those purchasing an FT premium digital subscription will get three months of […]
Nikkei Asia promotes Regalado to Bangkok correspondent

Nikkei Asia has tapped Francesca Regalado as Bangkok correspondent. Previously, she served as Tokyo reporter covering the Tokyo Olympics, foreign affairs, the pandemic in Japan, cryptocurrencies, and climate change. She has also worked as an economics reporter, covering the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the International Monetary Fund for Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest […]
Zhou joins Nikkei Asia as senior biz correspondent

Cissy Zhou has joined Nikkei Asia as a senior business correspondent covering China’s tech coverage, based in Hong Kong. Recently, she was a political economy reporter at the South China Morning Post. Before that, she has worked as a producer at BBC News and was an investigative reporter at both Caixin Global in Beijing and […]
Yiu named Hong Kong correspondent at Nikkei Asia

Pak Yiu has joined Nikkei Asia as a Hong Kong correspondent. He comes from Reuters, where he was a journalist. He has also worked as a video journalist at Reuters. He was also a China and Mongolia video journalist at AFP and a multimedia producer at News Talk 4BC. Yiu graduated from University of Queensland.
Nikkei Asia taps Chakravorty as first special projects editor

Jui Chakravorty has been hired by Nikkei Asia as its first special projects editor. She will be in charge of conceptualizing, managing and executing ambitious editorial projects, and working with journalists in bureaus around the world on deeply-reported pieces that will integrate, augment and advance elements of Nikkei Asia’s digital journalism. Part of Japan-based holding […]