Mashable's Search for a Singapore Editor Continues
Content chief Jim Roberts tells mUmBRELLA Asia he has been pleasantly surprised by the caliber of local candidates.
Mashable executive editor and chief content officer Jim Roberts connected this past week from Singapore for an interesting Q&A with mUmBRELLA Asia’s Robin Hicks.
Mashable plans to open a Singapore office in the third quarter of 2015, and Roberts has been in the country interviewing candidates for the local editor position. Roberts said his site already gets approximately two million monthly unique visitors from Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines). Mashable has a budget to hire two journalists for the Singapore office, starting with the editor:
“We’re only halfway through the search, but if I leave Singapore without a few strong candidates I will have failed.
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