How I Plan to Cover the World’s Most Exciting Travel Region as Skift’s New Asia Editor
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Our first Asia Editor, Raini Hamdi, starts with us today and shares how she intends to cover the vast, fast, diverse, and dynamic region of Asia. Apart from remembering to breathe deeply, she'll be focusing on the stories that count.
As my opening story, I’ve been asked to write a piece laying out my strategy for covering Asia for Skift.
It occurred to me that I might be in trouble. Because Asia is a huge continent to cover! It occupies a third of the world’s land area and its 4.5 billion person population is bigger than that of the other continents combined.
[caption id="attachment_311761" align="alignright" width="300"] Skift's new Asia editor Raini Hamdi[/caption]And then there’s me, located in a tiny red dot on the world map, Singapore, covering the whole of Asia for Skift.
The continent I’m covering is also not a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to borrow Ang Lee’s film title. It is leaping for everyone to see. Quick recap: Two out of the three largest economies in the world are in Asia: China (second) and Japan (third). Other Asian economies are rising quickly: India is projected to be fastest-growin
