2024 Asia Journalism Forum｜Panelists

He served as Tehran Bureau Chief, New York Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief, and Chief Editorial Writer of Kyodo before taking current position in 2019. He writes about international affairs and frequently interviews global leaders, such as President George W. Bush of the United States of America and Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation.

Also, he often makes comments on international affairs and Japan’s diplomacy on TV news programs. He received the Japan Press Club Award for international reporting in 2021. His current career includes Professor at Meiji University. He has written many books on Japan’s nuclear policy, geopolitics, economic sanctions, and international news reporting.

During the 2019 Indonesian election period, Wahyu collaborated with 24 media outlets, along with the Indonesian Cyber Media Association(AMSI), the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), and the Anti-Slander Society (Mafindo), to establish Indonesia’s first fact-checking collaborat- ion platform, CekFakta.com.

Wahyu is also a member of the AJI and serves as the Secretary-General of the AMSI. In 2014, he received the Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University and teaches journalism at the University of Indonesia and Mu-ltimedia Nusantara University (UMN).

Noppatjak Attanon is a leading journalist during Thailand political turmoil a decade ago, he uses digital platform to deliver news and analysis to create better changes for the country.

He then received a British Government Chevening scholarship to study International Journalism at City University London, where he worked with the BBC Thai under BBC Chevening Placement.

In 2017, he came back to Bangkok and led TODAY, a leading digital news outlet that reach millions of viewers worldwide. He hosted the show AIM HOUR, interview program in English language aiming to be a platform to bridge the gap between Bangkok and the world.

She has served as the President of the BBC Hong Kong Bureau and the Editor-in-Chief of BBC Chinese News, as well as the International Project Director and China Editor for The Initium in New York. She has also contributed articles to the Chinese edition of The New York Times and worked as a correspondent for the South China Morning Post in Beijing, among other renowned foreign media outlets.

In 2023, she founded Dasheng Media（Mighty Voice LLC） in New York. Serving as the founder and CEO, they aim to develop innovative Chinese-language community news models.

He is the executive director of the Prospect Foundation, and the Board Member of Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. He served as Director    General for Department of International Affairs and Director General for Department of China Affairs in the Democratic Progressive Party. Prior to that, he was Taiwan Thinktank’s Vice President,  Executive Director for DPP Mission in the US , and Special Assistant for Policy to Taiwan Representative to Japan.

He had professional experiences including positions at United Daily News, Apple Daily, The Reporter, Radio Free Asia, Mirror Media, and Taiwan Public Television. Specialized roles encompass being a practical instructor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism at National Taiwan University and serving as a judge for the Foundation for Excellent Journalism Awards. He is currently employed at the Asian Fact-Checking Laboratory, and focus areas in the profession include politics, national defense, cross- strait relations, and China-related affairs.

She specializes in political communication, voting behavior, political behavior, public opinion polls, and big data analysis. She authored  ‘Political Communication’ and ‘Taiwan People’s Media Use and Unification and Independence Position.’ Her roles include editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Administration & Policy, editorial board member of Mass Communication Research, director of the Research Center for Public Opinion and Election at National Taipei University, and memb-erships in various governmental and media committees.

The Reporter focuses on in-depth reportage and investigative journalism and publishes its output on an open-source website. Sherry endeavors to explore new possibilities for journalism and to facilitate more cross-border collaborations in investigative journalism. She is also a board member of the Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC), a network of journalists dedicated to investigating environmental crimes.

In the past few years, Sherry has authored two award-winning books, Far Sea Fishery And Slavery At Sea (2017) and In Their Teens, In Their Ruin (2018). She has also won the Best Editor of the Year Award of Taipei International Book Exhibition with Fiery Tides (2020), a book on Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement, and the Best Editor of the Year Award of Golden Tripod Awards with War in Ukraine (2022) . She is also a faculty of practice at the graduate school of journalism of National Taiwan University.