Ep 73: From Ai Wei Wei to Building Generation T (Tatler) | Lee Williamson (Regional Editorial Editor, Generation T, Tatler Asia Group) - a podcast by Ling Yah
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Lee Williamson is the Regional Editorial Director of Generation T, Tatler Asia Group and currently oversees three of Tatler’s flagship brands: Gen.T, Front & Female and Asia’s Most Influential. He was previously the Editor at Time Out Beijing and Editor-in-Chief at That’s China and was selected as a WAN-IFRA Young Media Leaders Fellow 2020.
If you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to work as a foreign journalist in China, dealing with state censorship, producing “controversial” editorials and also producing media products like the Generation T list, then this is the episode for you!
Highlights:
- 6:48 Moving to China
- 8:58 Working as a journalist at That’s China
- 11:33 “You’ll Never Be Chinese”
- 15:19 Censorship in China
- 17:26 Relaunching
- 18:21 Being Editor at Time Out Beijing
- 21:12 Publishing Ai Wei Wei’s first interview following his detainment in China
- 23:14 Working at Tatler
- 25:05 Why Gen.T?
- 26:21 Defining success, influence and power
- 27:17 What’s the point of another “list”?
- 29:42 Building the Gen.T community
- 34:48 Gaining trust
- 35:52 Getting people to share what they really want even after they say “I don’t really need anything”
- 39:05 Seeing Gen.T’s brand value increase
- 43:11 Deciding who gets on Gen.T
- 45:08 Tribes
- 47:21 Safeguards
- 48:57 Trends among Gen.T honourees
- 50:22 What’s in it for Gen.T?
- 51:09 The Crazy Smart Asia podcast
- 56:21 Planning for the future of Gen.T
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