Rest of World hires Bhattacharya as South Asia reporter
Rest of World has hired Ananya Bhattacharya as its South Asia reporter. She has been at Quartz as a global breaking news writer. Bhattacharya also worked for Quartz India as a tech writer. She covered stories ranging from Amazon’s warehouse robots to swarm electrification in Bangladesh. She worked in New York, covering both U.S. and India tech stories, and then […]
Rest of World hires Zabludovsky as Latin America editor
Karla Zabludovsky, who has covered Latin America extensively for BuzzFeed News and The New York Times, is joining Rest of World as its Latin America editor. She will start Jan. 8. Zabludovsky started her career in journalism in Haiti, in 2010, covering the aftermath of the deadly earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean nation. Then, after completing her […]
Rest of World seeks a South Asia reporter
Rest of Worldis an international nonprofit newsroom that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated. Since launching in 2020, we’ve published stories from nearly 100 countries outside the West. Our work explores the spaces where tech, business, […]
Bloomberg hires Hilton as breaking news editor in Japan
Bloomberg News has hired Sarah Hilton to be a breaking news editor in Japan. She has been at Rest of World as Asia editor covering Southeast Asia, Japan and the Koreas based in Tokyo. Before that, Hilton was an assistant editor on the award-winning Big Story desk at Nikkei Asia. Before that, she held the […]
Rest of World China editor set to depart
Yi-Ling Liu, writer and China editor at Rest of World, is set to depart. As per her post on X/Twitter, she will focus her attention on her new book which is a narrative non-fiction book about the shifting bounds of public life in China, to be published by Penguin Press. At Rest of World, Liu […]
Rest of World seeks a Southeast Asia editor
Rest of World is an international non-profit newsroom that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated. Since launching in 2020, we’ve published stories from nearly 100 countries outside the West. Our work explores the spaces where tech, […]
Rest of World’s Brandom to write new tech newsletter
Russell Brandom, U.S. tech editor at Rest of World, will write a weekly newsletter about the global impact of U.S. technology companies. The newsletter called “EXPORTER” will come out in June. Prior to joining Rest of World, Brandom worked at The Verge for 10 years as a senior reporter and then as a policy editor. […]
Rest of World hires Chen as China reporter
Rest of World has hired Caiwei Chen as its China reporter. Chen’s reporting on the rapidly changing Chinese internet has appeared in Wired, Protocol, South China Morning Post, SupChina, and Radii, among others. She has regularly contributed to Chaoyang Trap, a critically acclaimed Substack newsletter that focuses on everyday lives on China’s internet. She has […]
Rest of World’s Kaphle discusses its strategy
Mathew Ingram of Columbia Journalism Review spoke with Rest of World editor in chief Anup Kaphle about the strategy around its editorial focus. Here is an excerpt: MI: How have things changed since you joined Rest of World? Are there any insights you brought from your experience editing a newspaper in Kathmandu, or from the Washington Post? AK: When I […]
Rest of World receives $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation
Rest of World has received a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its coverage of the impact of tech on everyday people. The grant, which is made available through the foundation’s Future of Work(ers) program, will fund a one-year reporting fellowship at Rest of World designed to support coverage of tech’s relationship with labor, […]
