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Team news and behind the scenes

‘Tech Markets’: A design retrospective

A behind-the-scenes look at one of our favorite visual projects.

A behind-the-scenes look at one of our favorite visual projects.

Meet our new South Asia Editor

Durga M Sengupta joins Rest of World from The Ken.

Durga Sengupta

Durga M Sengupta joins Rest of World from The Ken.

Meet our new China Editor

Yi-Ling Liu joins Rest of World

Yi-Ling Liu joins Rest of World

Our favorite product stats, features and projects in 2022

A year filled with deployments, bug fixes, the occasional duck gif, lots of CSS and Javascript, and even more coffee

collage of screenshots of different product features from the year

A year filled with deployments, bug fixes, the occasional duck gif, lots of CSS and Javascript, and even more coffee

Meet our new U.S. Tech Editor

Russell Brandom joins Rest of World from The Verge.

Russell Brandom

Russell Brandom joins Rest of World from The Verge.

Rest of World promotes Itika Sharma Punit and Cengiz Yar to deputy editors

We’re very excited to announce that Itika Sharma Punit and Cengiz Yar have been promoted to deputy editors at Rest of...

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We’re very excited to announce that Itika Sharma Punit and Cengiz Yar have been promoted to deputy editors at Rest of...

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Rest of World introduces machine translation for its stories

Our stories are now available in Spanish and Portuguese using Google’s Machine Translation technology.

Our stories are now available in Spanish and Portuguese using Google’s Machine Translation technology.

Meet our new Africa Editor

We’re thrilled to announce that David Adeleke will join the Rest of World team as our Africa Editor. David is a seasoned...

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We’re thrilled to announce that David Adeleke will join the Rest of World team as our Africa Editor. David is a seasoned...

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Ankur Paliwal wins South Asian Journalists Association award for Rest of World article

“Why minorities are abandoning India’s trailblazing queer forums” won for best story in the Arts & Culture category

“Why minorities are abandoning India’s trailblazing queer forums” won for best story in the Arts & Culture category

Rest of World promotes Michael Zelenko to executive editor, Khushbu Shah to head of development

Anup Kaphle, the publication's editor-in-chief, announced the new roles in a team email today.

Anup Kaphle, the publication's editor-in-chief, announced the new roles in a team email today.

Meet our new Features Editor

Kevin Schoenmakers joins the Rest of World team.

Kevin Schoenmakers joins the Rest of World team.

A new outpost on mastodon

The next frontier (for us) and potentially a community

The next frontier (for us) and potentially a community

How we re-created the tank-shaped cake that nearly ended a Chinese mega-influencer’s career

It took a village (and some star bakers in California).

It took a village (and some star bakers in California).

Rest of World names Anup Kaphle first-ever Editor in Chief

Rest of World’s newsroom entering its third year under Kaphle’s leadership.

Rest of World's Editor-in-Chief Anup Kaphle

Rest of World’s newsroom entering its third year under Kaphle’s leadership.

Munira Mutaher joins the Rest of World Visuals Team

We’re excited to announce that Munira Mutaher is starting as our new Assistant Photo Editor.

We’re excited to announce that Munira Mutaher is starting as our new Assistant Photo Editor.

Meet our new Latin America Reporter

Daniela Dib joins the Rest of World Team.

Daniela Dib joins the Rest of World Team.

Rest of World wins at the AAJA Community Awards 2022

This week we are excited to announce two wins from the Asian American Journalists Association Excellence Awards.

This week we are excited to announce two wins from the Asian American Journalists Association Excellence Awards.

Rest of World wins two SOPA Awards

This week we are celebrating not one but two awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia.

This week we are celebrating not one but two awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia.

New year, new look

Homepages are hard. They have to make a good first impression on a new reader. They have to clearly display our tone and...

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Screenshot of new homepage

Homepages are hard. They have to make a good first impression on a new reader. They have to clearly display our tone and...

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Introducing our Visual Style Guide

As Rest of World publishes more stories and experiments with new formats in storytelling, our visual consistency becomes more important than ever.

As Rest of World publishes more stories and experiments with new formats in storytelling, our visual consistency becomes more important than ever.

Rest of World at 💯

This week, we officially crossed the 100 stories published mark. In just five months since launching Rest of World, we’ve...

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This week, we officially crossed the 100 stories published mark. In just five months since launching Rest of World, we’ve...

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The Wall Street Journal on Sophie Schmidt’s plans for Rest of World

The founder and CEO of Rest of World spoke to the Journal about our mission and the road ahead for the publication.

The founder and CEO of Rest of World spoke to the Journal about our mission and the road ahead for the publication.

“It’s only an edge case if you think you’re the center of the universe”

Rest of World CEO Sophie Schmidt speaks with Paul Ford and the Stack Overflow podcast about the opportunities we miss when we stay in Western tech bubble.

Rest of World CEO Sophie Schmidt speaks with Paul Ford and the Stack Overflow podcast about the opportunities we miss when we stay in Western tech bubble.

A conversation with Anup Kaphle

Our executive editor spoke to Walt Hickey at Numlock about Rest of World and what readers can expect from the publication in coming days.

Our executive editor spoke to Walt Hickey at Numlock about Rest of World and what readers can expect from the publication in coming days.

Introducing the 2020 Rest of World Reporting Fellows

We are delighted to share that Aanu Adeoye, Priscila Bellini, Elia El Habre, Mehr Nadeem, Leo Schwartz, and Zeyi Yang start...

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We are delighted to share that Aanu Adeoye, Priscila Bellini, Elia El Habre, Mehr Nadeem, Leo Schwartz, and Zeyi Yang start...

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Rest of What?

Hi folks: Welcome to Rest of World. Two weeks before our launch in March, we had to lock the doors to our New York office...

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Hi folks: Welcome to Rest of World. Two weeks before our launch in March, we had to lock the doors to our New York office...

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Meet our Executive Editor

Anup joins us from the Kathmandu Post, where, as the editor-in-chief, he managed Nepal’s largest English-language newsroom...

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Anup joins us from the Kathmandu Post, where, as the editor-in-chief, he managed Nepal’s largest English-language newsroom...

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