Meaghan Tobin has been employed by The Washington Publish as a China correspondent, with a concentrate on enterprise and know-how.
Tobin is a proficient speaker of Mandarin whose deep information of China and aptitude for storytelling have been evident in her latest work as a China know-how reporter for Remainder of World. First as a scholar after which as a journalist, Meaghan spent 4 years in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China earlier than relocating to New York throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
A minimum of initially, Tobin might be primarily based in Taiwan whereas the newspaper seeks to steer the Chinese language authorities to grant visas that may enable Publish correspondents to return to Beijing. Tobin will be part of a Taiwan-based workforce that features Lily Kuo, our China bureau chief, and Christian Shepherd, a correspondent, together with researchers Vic Chiang and Pei-Lin Wu in Taipei, Lyric Li in Seoul and Theodora Wu in Hong Kong. Including Tobin will enable The Publish to commit extra consideration to the more and more central position that know-how is taking part in in China and throughout Asia as an instrument of presidency energy and as a driver of world change.
Tobin is a graduate of New York College, with a bachelor’s diploma in meals research and public well being, and of the Fletcher Faculty at Tufts College, with a grasp’s diploma in legislation and diplomacy. She started her journalism profession in 2018 as a reporter for the South China Morning Publish in Hong Kong; she had beforehand studied Mandarin in Taipei as a Luce Scholar at Nationwide Taiwan College and in Beijing as a Boren Fellow on the Stanford-Tsinghua Inter-College Program. She was beforehand a pastry chef and may nonetheless be discovered cooking at pals’ pop-up eating places and baking on the weekends.
Tobin will begin on Jan. 23 and can spend a number of weeks within the newsroom earlier than relocating to Taiwan.
