How Tech in Asia’s managing editor Terence Lee works

I’m stoked to have Terence Lee, my former colleague and all-around nice guy, as my first feature here on Work Daily.

As the managing editor of Tech in Asia – arguably the top tech publication in Asia at the moment – Terence’s day is packed with back-to-back tasks. Some of the things he does on a daily basis include editing scheduled content, ensuring that the team is on track with the overall direction, and doing interviews and hiring.

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it.

Daily workflow

The bulk of Terence’s time is spent editing other people’s work to ensure that it is ready for publication, as well as communicating with teammates to make sure they’re all synced up with the team’s direction.

Beyond that, the rest of his time is spent evenly between interviewing tech personalities and writing the occasional article; strategic thinking to figure out the team’s next steps; coordinating with other departments on initiatives.

Terence in action at Saas Business Asia

His downtime in between tasks is used to catch up on news via Facebook or Twitter, or read up on books that will help him improve on his work – on topics like UX research. On the strategic end, Terence does a lot of data crunching and analyzing, figuring out what types of content work and don’t work and then using that to inform the content direction.

“There’s also a lot of pushing and nudging in my work, such as reminding people to get things done. I also work on hiring, finding candidates, interviewing them, doing writing tests, or pushing that to other teammates to do the interviewing and testing,” he adds.

The tools he uses

Whew! That’s a whole lot of stuff that happens in Terence’s daily workflow. Let’s take a look at what products and services he uses to get it all done.

Content creation

Content creation is the name of the game for journalists, so naturally many of Terence’s tools land in this category.