Gina Chua

Gina Chua is Executive Editor at Semafor, a new global news startup. She joined it 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. In earlier roles at Reuters, Gina managed the graphics department, helped build a world-class data and computational journalism team, oversaw the creation of the ground-breaking Connected China app, which tracked and visualized power and relationships among China’s elite, and drove development of Tracer, a machine-learning system that algorithmically detected and verified newsworthy events on Twitter.