Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship at NYU

We’re pleased to announce the WSJ Fellowship winner: Saabira Chaudhuri:

Saabira Chaudhuri is the Multimedia Editor for Mint, India’s second most widely read business newspaper. As part of her role at Mint, Ms. Chaudhuri creates videos, podcasts, slideshows and other multimedia content for the paper’s website, Livemint.com.

Ms. Chaudhuri also writes articles for the website covering health, education, human rights, social media and technology. She anchors newscasts for Livemint.com and its content partner CNBC and writes a blog focusing on development issues.

Before Mint, Ms. Chaudhuri worked as the associate editor for FastCompany.com, and as the associate content producer for Forbes magazine, both in New York. She graduated magna cum laude in 2006 with a BA in sociology and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and spent her senior year studying law and sociology at the London School of Economics.

Thanks to everyone who applied this year; it was an impressive field of applicants.

Only one more month until deadline for applications. The timeline is here. Eligibility requirements here. Procedure for applications is here.

If you can’t find answers to your questions on the site, email us here.

Alumnus Jody Xu reports on the less-than-stellar welcome President Obama received ahead of his China trip: 

Despite the message intended by President Obama from his spending the longest time in China on his first trip to Asia next week, the Chinese people are nonplussed.

One person asked in People Forum, an online chat room of the Peoples Daily: “Mr. President, don’t you think this is a bad time to visit given your recent approval to increase tax on Chinese tires and the escalating trade war against us?”

China’s leading English-language weekly, Global Times, found in an online poll that, out of 8,100 respondents, 86% said they either “do not anticipate” or “do not care much” about the coming visit of the U.S. President.

Obama Loses His Star Power–in China – Deal Journal – WSJ

Alumnus Shefali Anand on the Galleon insider trading case:

NEW DELHI — The tipster who investigators say touched off one of the largest insider-trading cases in recent years is the aunt of a friend of a former Moody’s Investors Service analyst who allegedly passed information to her, according to the analyst.

Prosecutors allege that an analyst at Moody’s gave Roomy Khan — identified by people familiar with the matter as the tipster — confidential information in 2007, before the announcement of Blackstone Group’s $26 billion takeover of Hilton Hotels. Ms. Khan and ..

Filing Says Tipster Got Info From Ex-Moody’s Analyst – WSJ.com

One more month to go until deadline for the fellowship. Here’s the timeline.