During my time as the Assistant Editor for The Independent's Asia bureau, I edited and wrote hundreds of stories for the newspaper's Asia, US and UK editions with a special focus on Asia.Managed daily news output for the Asia bureau by assigning news stories to reporters across several beats, including but not limited to politics, crime, climate, economy and science.Edited, fact-checked and published said stories and managed the home page for all the editions of The Independent at various points of time.I also led live blog coverage for several news events including the Ukraine invasion, the Morocco earthquake, the Odisha train accident in India and Matthew Perry's death, to name a few.My other responsibilities also included enhancing SEO for the stories I wrote/edited in co-ordination with the newspaper's Audience teams, along with scouting for news stories/breaking news across the Internet that would help increase The Independent's readership.I also edited long-form feature stories sent by reporters that concerned events and personalities across Asia.