Joanna Chiu was the China Editor at Rest of World based in Vancouver, Canada. She has more than 15 years of reporting and editing experience. Before joining Rest of World, she covered national and international news for the Toronto Star, and worked at Agence France-Presse, The Economist, Associated Press, and South China Morning Post prior to that. She is the author of China Unbound, and is the vice-chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, which celebrates the work of women on the subject of China. She won the Kathy Gannon Legacy Award for Distinguished Reporting on China, and speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. She holds a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University.
