Director

Now director of the CMP, leading the project’s research and partnerships, David joined the team in 2004 after completing his master’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village (Penguin/Melville House), a book of reportage about urbanization and social activism in China, and co-editor of Investigative Journalism in China (HKU Press).

Tian Jian Chief Editor

Currently chief editor of Tian Jian (田間), CMP’s Chinese-language news magazine of and about global Sinophone media and journalism, Heng Yu previously worked as a journalist for several local media outlets in Taiwan, including Storm Media and UDN. His focus was covering world news and foreign affairs, including interviews with Kelly Craft, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, and Kishore Mahbubani, former Singapore Ambassador to the UN. He holds a BA in political science and international relations from Hunter College, CUNY.

Tian Jian Reporter

Su Hsiao Fan has worked for many years as a freelance journalist in Taiwan, working on topics ranging across society, culture and the media. Her work has appeared in The Reporter, Initium, the film magazine Filmholic and other outlets. She previously worked as a news editor and magazine feature writer. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from National Chengchi University.

Researcher / Lingua Sinica Project Manager

Dalia is a researcher for the China Media Project and coordinates data and mapping for Lingua Sinica, CMP’s online resource on Chinese-language media globally. She studies PRC efforts to influence media integrity across local contexts. Having worked at EUISS in Paris and at RUSI and IISS in London, she also specializes in Chinese foreign policy and Taiwan studies. She holds master’s degrees from SOAS (China and International Politics) and LSE (International Relations).

Researcher / Database Coordinator

Alex has written on Chinese affairs for The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Wire China. He has a background in coding from a scholarship with the Lede Program for Data Journalism at Columbia University. Based in Beijing from 2019 to 2022, Alex’s work as a Staff Writer for The World of Chinese won two SOPA awards. He is still recovering from zero-Covid.

CMP Investigations Coordinator

An experienced reporter and editor, Yihsuan was formerly on the China desk of Voice of America, and before that was a journalist at Taiwan’s Liberty Times. Her reporting has focused on US-China-Taiwan relations as well as broader political, economic, and security issues in the Indo-Pacific region. She holds a master’s degree in journalism and a bachelor’s in political science from National Taiwan University.

Former Managing Editor

Ryan has worked as a journalist in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan for close to a decade, covering the region for a variety of local and international media. He holds a BA in Modern China Studies and a Master of Journalism degree from the University of Hong Kong and has also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and National Taiwan University.

CMP Contributor

Chu Yang is a freelance journalist and researcher with a particular interest in China’s digital culture and the global influence of Chinese media. She previously co-founded Cenci Journalism Project, a multimedia platform reporting on China’s marginalized groups, and several other civic journalism initiatives. Before starting her independent projects, she covered China’s economy and finance for Caixin. Chu is pursuing a Mundus Journalism master’s degree in journalism, media and globalization, and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism.

CMP Contributor

Raphael recently graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Laws degree. At the China Media Project, he has researched on China’s cyberspace policy and the overseas presence of Chinese media.

CMP Contributor

Joyce Chan is a freelance researcher with a particular interest in Chinese politics, media and foreign policy. She is fluent in Cantonese, English, Mandarin, German and Swedish.

CMP Contributor

Tuvia Gering is a researcher at INSS’s Diane & Guilford Glazer Foundation Israel-China Policy Center, a nonresident fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, and a Tikvah Fund’s Krauthammer fellow based in Jerusalem and specializing in Chinese security and foreign policy. In addition, Gering is the editor and author of Discourse Power, a Substack newsletter covering leading Chinese perspectives on current affairs. 

CMP Contributor

Jordyn Haime is a Taiwan-based freelance journalist who writes about religion, media, culture, and geopolitics. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2020 with degrees in journalism and international affairs and recently completed a Fulbright fellowship, under which she researched Judaism and philosemitism in Taiwan.

CMP Contributor

Kevin Schoenmakers is a Shanghai-based freelance journalist.

2022-2023 CMP Intern

Xinyu is a double master’s degree candidate in Global Media and Communications (LSE & USC), and in 2021 was a research member in the Media@LSE Knowledge Exchange Internship Program. His research interests include Chinese media development, media representation, and media and data ethics. In 2020, he was an intern journalist at Xinhua News Agency.