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
- Vox - Can you really just sweep your CO2 emissions underground? Japan is about to find out (June 2024)
- Semafor - Japan is banking on an unproven technology to solve its clean energy problem (June 2024)
- Outrider - As it Fades in the Global West, Coal Interests Look to a New Frontier of Greenwashing (Feb 2024)
- Coda Story - Why are climate skeptics speaking out about the Uyghur genocide? (Nov 2023)
- Japan Times - How Japan's renewable underestimates are impacting Asia's energy transition (Dec 2023)
Supported by a fellowship from the McGraw Center for Business Reporting.
Other notable clips
- Al Jazeera - Exposed: The links between Indonesia’s deforestation and Xinjiang (April 2023)
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 (Dec 2022)
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 (June 2022)
- Foreign Policy - COP26 Is Silent on Human Rights in China (Nov 2021)
- Foreign Affairs - Indonesia’s Nonalignment Problem (Dec 2020)
- Gizmodo - The Dumb Dream of Turning Coal to Gas Just Won't Die (Dec 2020)
- Financial Times - Flooded Asia: Climate change hits region the hardest (Oct 2020)
- Coda Story - Disinformation from China floods Taiwan’s most popular messaging app (Oct 2020)
- Gizmodo - Coconut Oil Could Be the Next Disastrous Biofuel (Feb 2020)
- Mobilisation Lab - When changing laws isn’t enough: Amnesty's culture-shifting campaigns to end sexual violence (Jan 2020)
- The Nation - China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India (Oct 2019)
- Gizmodo - How China Is Helping Drive Deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia (Oct 2019)
- Foreign Policy - Tiananmen Crushed Asia’s Wave of Rebellion (June 2019)
- Vox - The most important country for the global climate no one is talking about: Indonesia (Dec 2018)
- Foreign Policy - Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims (July 2018)
- Mobilisation Lab - Changing global fishing: How pet lovers helped take on Thai Union (Mar 2018)
- The Diplomat - The Rapid Rise of Censorship in Southeast Asia (Jan 2018)
- Al Jazeera - Suharto's ghost stalks Indonesian election (April 2014)
- Quartz - America’s problem with unions means that the poor are now considered greedy (July 2013)
Contact
Via Mastodon, LinkedIn or email contact(AT)mail.nithincoca[DOT]com