openDemocracy is delighted to announce that Jade-Ruyu Yan has been selected as our inaugural tech reporting fellow in collaboration with Tech Policy Press.
Jade-Ruyu is an investigative journalist from Hong Kong with a focus on corporate influence. She brings a strong background to this unique fellowship, which involves tracking, investigating, and analysing the rapidly evolving tech and society beat in the United Kingdom.
Over the next 12 months, Jade-Ruyu’s work will be published by both openDemocracy and Tech Policy Press to ensure it reaches a wide and influential audience.
Jade-Ruyu has reported for Computer Weekly, Project Brazen, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, Ad Age, and other publications.
The openDemocracy and Tech Policy Press fellowship is an experiment in bringing cross-newsroom collaboration and mentorship between two reputed media not-for-profits. Fellows are embedded in openDemocracy’s investigative team in the UK with access to Tech Policy Press’s experienced editors in the US and Europe.
“The tech industry’s corporate consolidation and dispersed and uneven geographic footprint present a unique challenge for small newsrooms looking to investigate how technology affects societies around the world,” said openDemocracy’s editor-in-chief Aman Sethi. “This fellowship is an attempt to fix this problem by pooling openDemocracy’s reporting resources with Tech Policy Press’s domain expertise.”
“As policymakers in the UK confront the growing concentration of power in the technology sector, their decisions are sending signals that resonate globally,” said Ramsha Jahangir, senior editor at Tech Policy Press. “This fellowship underscores our commitment to keeping pace with the UK’s fast-moving tech policy debates and ensuring they are reported with clarity, depth, and international perspective.
Commenting on her appointment, Jade-Ruyu said: “There's a lot of PR and behind-the-scenes action going on with these tech developments. I'm looking forward to digging in with a great team to give people the information they need, so that we can all ask the right questions of the UK government and companies.”
