Gabriel Boylan

Nov 21, 2024 | restofworld.org | Michael Zelenko |Anup Kaphle |Gabriel Boylan

Rest of World is thrilled to announce that Kinling Lo will be joining Rest of World as a China Reporter. Lo will be working on our China desk, which includes Senior Reporter Viola Zhou and China Editor Joanna Chiu. Kinling was previously a correspondent covering diplomacy, macroeconomy, and tech policies for the South China Morning Post from Beijing. Kinling has spent most of her time in Hong Kong, where she was born and raised.

Oct 15, 2024 | restofworld.org | Gabriel Boylan |Libby Daghlian |Michael Donohoe

We are thrilled to share that Andrew Deck and Raksha Kumar have won the South Asian Journalists Association’s Outstanding Arts, Culture and Lifestyles Reporting Award for their feature Vigilantes for views. Varsha Bansal won the award for Outstanding Business Reporting, which included her work for Rest of World and Wired. Deck and Kumar’s article focused on scambaiting, the phenomenon of content creators pranking alleged scam callers for a sense of vigilante justice — and YouTube views.

May 20, 2024 | restofworld.org | Lily Lou |Joanne Lee |Jane O'Donoghue |Gabriel Boylan

This week we launched “Explainers” — no, not the explanatory journalism kind — a product feature that involves a short introduction of companies we regularly cover that you can read if you click on a highlighted term within a story. We developed the feature to address a problem we noticed: we often reference a company in a story, but we sometimes forget that not everyone knows the background or basic information about that company.

May 13, 2024 | restofworld.org | Gabriel Boylan

The Society For News Design awarded Rest of World a Bronze medal in the Design, Social Issues category of its 45th annual Creative Competition for the article How AI reduces the world to stereotypes, recognizing the team behind it, Joanne Lee (Designer), Anna Rasshivkina (Developer), Lily Lou (Developer), Cengiz Yar (Art Director).  The judges commented:This is a fascinating entry and impressive for a newsroom of this size.

May 6, 2024 | restofworld.org | Gabriel Boylan

Last month we quietly relaunched our flagship newsletter. It was quiet in that we did not do a radical redesign or shift in content strategy. Yet there are some key updates — some you may notice, some you may not, and some that we found through testing needed further tweaking — and we wanted to walk through how we decided to make them and what we learned after making the change.