Former Chief Editor of “Business Insider Japan” / Former Editor-in-Chief of “AERA”
Keiko Hamada joined the Asahi Shimbun in 1989. She worked in the AERA editorial department in 1999 and became Editor-in-Chief of AERA in 2014 after serving as deputy editor. In that period, she actively covered corporate diversity, gender, and issues for working women. She left the Asahi Shimbun at the end of March 2017 and launched the Japanese edition of Business Insider, an online economic media company that operates in 12 countries around the world. She left the post of managing editor at the end of 2020 and became a freelance journalist. In August 2022, she established the Digital Journalist Education Institute (D-JEDI).