Ladder Studios

United States

Ross Settles, occasional academic, sometime consultant and dilettante investor, tries to stay at the intersection of media, money and tech, but is often left in the dust by innovators in Asia. Learning from the devil in the details is his motto.  Ross previously spent a year as a faculty associate at Harvard's Berkman Centre and also taught journalism graduate students at Hong Kong University's Journalism and Media Studies Centre about the ins and outs of the media business. You can find him anywhere there is a good bowl of noodles. Currently oscillating between Taipei and San Francisco.

The Reporter

Taiwan

Sherry Hsueh-Li Lee is the COO, Deputy CEO and Chief Editorial writer of The Reporter, the first non-profit media in Taiwan established by a public welfare foundation. The Reporter focuses on in-depth reportage and investigative journalism. She is the board of the Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC), a network of journalists dedicated to investigating environmental crimes. She won the Best Editor of the Year Award of Taipei International Book Exhibition for her book Fiery Tides (2020), a book on Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement. She is also on the faculty at the graduate school of journalism of National Taiwan University.