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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 5, 2022
RFA Names Ginny Stein as Southeast Asia Managing Editor
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WASHINGTON – Radio Free Asia <https://www.rfa.org/english/> (RFA), a
nonprofit news corporation that brings answers, accountability, and
empowerment to populations in Asian countries under authoritarian rule,
today named Ginny Stein as its new Southeast Asia Managing Editor. Stein
brings more than two decades of experience in journalism, working as a
foreign correspondent and broadcaster across radio, TV and digital
platforms, as well as managing overseas media operations. She replaces Mat
Pennington, who is now serving as RFA’s Senior Managing Editor.
“Ginny is a superb newsroom leader, whose extensive experience both as a
journalist and strategic planner will be invaluable to RFA,” RFA President
Bay Fang said. “As we work to meet the immense challenges facing audiences
in authoritarian areas in Southeast Asia, Ginny is the perfect fit to help
drive our coverage in the region forward.”
“I’m excited to be joining RFA during this historic period of growth for
the organization,” Stein said. “I have tremendous respect for RFA’s mission
of bringing timely news to audiences who would otherwise be left in the
dark. That mission is as crucial as ever in Southeast Asia and I am honored
to have this opportunity to boost RFA’s impact in the region.”
Stein will oversee RFA’s coverage of its Southeast Asia programming. She
will manage the daily operations and long-term plans for RFA’s Burmese,
Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese services. Prior to joining RFA, Stein worked for
two decades as a multimedia journalist, filling a number of roles including
foreign correspondent and camerawoman for Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC), where she was appointed the public broadcaster’s first
female Southeast Asia correspondent to Bangkok.
During her tenure as a journalist, Stein produced stories in Asia, Africa,
the Americas, the Middle East and the Pacific. She is a three-time winner
of Australia’s highest journalist award for stories she filmed in Myanmar,
Rwanda and Zimbabwe. In addition, Stein previously served as Director at
Blue Sky Vision Vanuatu, where she developed strategic communications plans
and international reporting and content production for a wide range of news
organizations including the Guardian, ITV UK, Al Jazeera, SBS Australia TV
and RFA sister network Voice of America. Stein earned her Master’s Degree
in Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development from the University of
Newcastle in Australia and her Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University
in Sydney, Australia.
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Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation broadcasting and
publishing online news, information, and commentary in nine East Asian
languages to listeners who do not have access to full and free news media.
RFA’s broadcasts seek to promote the rights of freedom of opinion and
expression, including the freedom to “seek, receive, and impart information
and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” RFA is funded by
an annual grant from the United States Agency for Global Media.
