Asha Phillips

Asha Phillips combines the best of traditional media – its rigor and scrutiny – with the speed and flexibility of digital media. This rare combination of traditional and digital makes Asha a rare talent in the media industry.

She is an authority on the handling of social content, with a rigorous framework around validating and verifying user-generated tweets, posts, videos and photos.

As the founder of the social media news consulting firm Verily, Asha has taught numerous journalists, editors and students on how to use social content in reporting. She has trained and consulted for several key industry giants, including CNN, Wall Street Journal Asia, Australia Broadcasting Corporation, Yahoo, WAN-IFRA and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

Asha is also one of the pioneering editors at Storyful – the first global social media news wire -- which was acquired by News Corporation in 2014.

As a recognised industry leader and an active member of the journalism community throughout Asia, Asha is a co-sponsor of ONA Singapore and regularly speaks at industry events in the region. Asha was a board member of the Asian American Journalists Association's (AAJA) Asia chapter.

She began her career in broadcast journalism in Australia, where she worked as a producer and executive producer at ABC Australia, Nine Network, Sky News and CNN. She’s lived and worked in Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore.

Specialties: Social media for news gathering, verification of UGC, newsroom workflows, content producing, live news output, editing, video production, international experience.