Annie Jieping Zhang is the Founder of Matters.News, the new decentralised content platform based on blockchain technology. She once served as Editor-in-Chief of Initium Media, the Executive Editor-in-Chief for iSun Affairs, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for City Magazine, and the writer for the New York Times Chinese website and reporter for Asia Week. She wrote extensively about the governance, politics, and social movements in mainland China and Hong Kong between 2006 and 2015. As a journalist, She has received 13 journalism awards in nine years, including “Journalist of the Year (2010)” from the Society of Publishers in Asia.