Gina Chua

Gina Chua is a Singaporean journalist serving as the executive editor of the media startup Semafor, and executive director of the Tow-Knight Center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. She previously served as the executive editor of the Reuters news agency. A trans woman, Chua is one of the most senior openly transgender journalists in the U.S. studied at the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and Columbia University, earning a master's degree in journalism.

Career Chua's first jobs in journalism included stints at Reuters, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation and the Straits Times. Chua joined The Wall Street Journal in Manila in 1993, started the paper's Hanoi bureau in 1995 and in August 1997 was named editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia (known then as The Asian Wall Street Journal).

Chua moved to New York in 2005 and worked as The Wall Street Journal 's assistant managing editor for budget and administration until 2008.

Chua began working as an editor for Reuters in 2011 and was appointed executive editor in April 2021. She has taught graduate- and undergraduate-level classes and short training courses on the business models of journalism, computer-assisted reporting, and numeracy at New York University, Hong Kong University, and Nanyang Technological University.

In 2024, Chua joined the Pulitzer Prize Board.

In 2025, Chua was named executive director of the Tow-Knight Center at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Chua has two adult children.