Cheryl Teh /// Senior News Editor
News editor / Singapore

Fast news.
Deep work.

Senior news editor and journalist with a decade of reporting, editing, and building teams across Asia.

An exacting and efficient news editor with a laser focus on global business and technology. Building the China, AI, consumer and workplace trends beat at Business Insider. Reporting from the cultural frontier of K-pop, games, and nerdworld.

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01 / In brief

Editor.
Reporter.
Builder.

I lead high-performing reporters, develop authoritative beats, and edit investigations and features that make people stop scrolling. My work sits at the intersection of Asia, technology, business, and culture.

10

years of reporting and editing across fast-moving global newsrooms

03

Business Insider awards, including the 2023 All-Star award

02 / Selected reporting

Business, but make it interesting.

All bylines ↗
01

He choreographed routines for BTS and Seventeen. Now he’s building AI for dance.

Exclusive
AI × K-pop↗ 02

How a team of game devs raised $4.5 million to build the next big thing.

Exclusive
Games × Startups↗ 03

Inside the Critical Role global touring that’s defining nerdworld.

Feature
Culture × Business↗ 04

Seventeen’s hot new JxJ unit are showing off their chemistry — with a little help from Pinterest.

Exclusive
K-pop × Platforms↗ 05

5 BI staffers who put AI agents to work share what worked and what went wrong.

Feature
AI × Work↗
03 / Experience

Newsroom
CV

Senior News Editor / Business Insider

Joined the Singapore bureau as its first editorial hire, moving from reporter to news editor within two years. Now leads Business Insider’s highest-performing international reporting team.

  • Established East Asia coverage with a focus on China’s tech sector.
  • Ran the Singapore bureau during the bureau chief’s leave.
  • Directs reporters across fast-moving business, politics, technology, and innovation coverage.
  • Edited award-winning investigations and narrative features, including “Death on Savage Mountain.”

Journalist / The Straits Times

Rotations on the environment, crime, defense, and investigations desk.

Press, panels, interviews, and ideas

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Cheryl Teh in Japan