Asha Phillips is the Asia Editor for Storyful, a social media newswire and Social Media and Communications Director for DragonIndustries Asia.

She spends her days mining social media for newsworthy User-Generated Content, which she then verifies and delivers to newsrooms in real-time.

Starting out in broadcast journalism, Asha earned her stripes working as a Producer, EP and reporter at ABC Australia, CNN and other global broadcast news networks.

Asha is an internationally sought-after speaker on Social Media and regularly conducts lectures and training for students and newsrooms around the region.

She also works with businesses across Asia – including NGOs, media and tertiary education providers – to help them extend their branding to social media.