Welcome
I am an global freelance journalist, primarily publishing in-depth features and investigations in Asia, a vitally important region of the world that does not get enough attention in the English-language media. Topics of interest include human rights, climate, supply chains, and technology. I focus on intersectional issues, linking, for example, climate change and human rights, or supply chains and environmental degradation, across the region.

I have been awarded fellowships from the Solutions Journalism Network, The Pulitzer Center, The McGraw Center for Business Journalism, JouranlismFund EU and The International Center for Journalists, to support my work, and my features have appeared in outlets in North America, Asia, and Europe, including Vox, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Yale E360, Foreign Affairs, and Coda Story.
Prior to working as a journalist, I worked in advocacy communications and campaigns for organizations including the Walk Free Foundation, Sierra Club, and Kehati (the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation).
I’m actively seeking new outlets or journalistic collaborators to work with, particularly on long-form or in-depth projects. If you’re an editor, or a fellow journalist, please contact me via social media, or at the email at the bottom of this page.
Recent Articles
- Japan Times - Beijing row highlights need for Japan to reduce cleantech dependence on China (Jan 2026)
- Bureau of Investigative Journalism - Big banks’ lending to coal backers undermines Indonesia’s green plans (Oct 2025)
- Rest of World - Humanoid robots, astronauts, and huge lines: China’s pavilion at the World Expo (August 2025)
- Mongabay - Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline (June 2025)
- Vox - Can you really just sweep your CO2 emissions underground? Japan is about to find out (June 2024)
Other notable clips
- Coda Story - Why are climate skeptics speaking out about the Uyghur genocide?
- Al Jazeera - Exposed: The links between Indonesia’s deforestation and Xinjiang
Supported by a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
- Energy Monitor - Facing headwinds at home, Europe and Japan are pushing waste-to-energy technology across South East Asia
Supported by a grant from JournalismFund.Eu. Winner of the Asian American Journalist Association's 2023 Excellent in International Reporting award
- The Wire China - Crisis of Confidence
- Foreign Policy - COP26 Is Silent on Human Rights in China
- Foreign Affairs - Indonesia’s Nonalignment Problem
- Gizmodo - The Dumb Dream of Turning Coal to Gas Just Won't Die
- Financial Times - Flooded Asia: Climate change hits region the hardest
- Coda Story - Disinformation from China floods Taiwan’s most popular messaging app
- Gizmodo - Coconut Oil Could Be the Next Disastrous Biofuel
- Mobilisation Lab - When changing laws isn’t enough: Amnesty's culture-shifting campaigns to end sexual violence
- The Nation - China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India
- Foreign Policy - Tiananmen Crushed Asia’s Wave of Rebellion
- Vox - The most important country for the global climate no one is talking about: Indonesia
- Foreign Policy - Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims
- Mobilisation Lab - Changing global fishing: How pet lovers helped take on Thai Union
- The Diplomat - The Rapid Rise of Censorship in Southeast Asia
- Al Jazeera - Suharto's ghost stalks Indonesian election
- Quartz - America’s problem with unions means that the poor are now considered greedy
Contact
Via Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky, or email contact(AT)mail.nithincoca.com
