Natashya is an award-winning multimedia journalist, correspondent and newsroom leader. She has built and managed newsrooms across Asia-Pacific and is skilled in documentary reporting, breaking news, editing articles, managing news teams, investigative journalism, and content strategy.
As a leader and editor, Natashya built two newsrooms in Asia-Pacific: she was Bureau Chief in Indonesia for multi-award winning newsroom Rappler, and was Editor-in-Chief of Vice in Asia-Pacific. Under her watch, the Vice APAC team won several awards for their reporting on human rights in the region.
As a journalist and correspondent, her reports have appeared in outlets like Al Jazeera, Channel News Asia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Vice on Showtime, Vice News Tonight, The Guardian and Time. She has reported from around the world including the frontlines of Afghanistan, scam centers in Cambodia, war zones in the Philippines, cartel territory in Mexico and drug trafficking routes in Colombia. She has also written award-winning articles about the Philippine drug war, human rights abuses by Canadian mining companies in Southeast Asia, and the disturbing trend of incest.
Natashya is particularly knowledgeable on Southeast Asia, and has lived and worked in Manila, Jakarta, Singapore and Sydney in the last decade. Her work is largely focused on covering women's rights, politics, democracies and disinformation.