Gina Chua

Gina Chua is the Executive Director of the Tow-Knight Center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she is exploring the intersection of journalism and AI and how it affects the industry's public sector mission. She is concurrently Executive Editor at Large at Semafor, a global news startup wthat she joined in May 2022 as part of the founding team led by Ben Smith and Justin Smith. Prior to joining Semafor, she was Executive Editor at Reuters, where she oversaw newsroom operations, logistics, budgets, safety and security, and worked with technology teams to develop newsroom tools, among other responsibilities. Gina was also the editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post and The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong; a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal in New York; a foreign correspondent in Singapore, Manila and Hanoi; and a television and radio journalist in Singapore. She co-founded the Sigma Data Journalism Awards and writes occasionally about the future of journalism and the intersection of the industry and technology on her blog. She sits on several boards of journalism organizations and funders, including the Trans Journalists Association. A native of Singapore, she graduated with a bachelor’s in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Gina transitioned in late 2020.