Media & Appearances
I am available as a speaker or interview guest on any topic related to my recent reporting. Specific areas that I can focus on include:
- Climate change, sustainability, environment and supply chains issues across the Asia-Pacific region.
- The human rights crisis in China, and how it is linked to global corporations.
- Deforestation, coal, and clean energy issues in Indonesia.
- The role of Japan in expanding fossil fuels, hydrogen, and CCS in Southeast Asia.
- Geopolitics and how countries in East and Southeast Asia are responding to the rise of China.
See below to see my previous interviews and appearances, and planned travel schedule. You can contact me to schedule an interview by emailing contact(at)mail.nithincoca.com
Live Interviews
Invited to speak with Japan Today about news consumption among the swipe generation in Japan, and the challenges mainstream media have in reaching them (Sept 2025)
Spoke alongside Kirsten Han for the Splice Pink podcast, talking about freelancing in Asia (April 2023)
Return guest on SeaChange Radio, which is broadcast on over 50 US radio stations including on PRX, this time speaking about the environmental and social impacts of plant-based meat supply chains (July 2023)
Featured guest on Soul Searching podcast on The Rise of China, Digital protectionism and its Dangers, Monopoly in Tech (Jan 2022)
Guest on weekly live episode of Shingetsu News Speakeasy on Chinese and Japanese rail infrastructure projects in Indonesia (July 2020)
Twit Tech News Weekly – Interviewed by Jason Howell and Ant Pruitt for live episode entitled Google is a Small Country, about going Google-free for one year, why I did it, and the biggest challenges I faced (Oct 2019)
Interviewed in Slate’s If Then | Tech Podcast episode “Breaking away from Google” by Aaron Mak on my attempt to close my Google account, and the alternatives I found (Sept 2019).
Featured guest in IRL Podcast episode: “The Surveillance Economy,” interviewed by Manoush Zomorodi from Mozilla, where I talk about what it was like to quit both Facebook and Google (Feb 2019).
Appearances
Presented on my reporting on climate, solar, cleantech and human rights in the Uyghur regions of China at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy (April 2025).
Featured speaker at Nerd Nite Tokyo, presenting on Censorship and Surveillance in Tibet (Oct 2023)
Moderated a panel at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference on How to Integrate Environmental Justice into your Reporting (May 2023)
Led a workshop at the Asian Americans Journalist Association N3 Conference in Singapore on Building a Community of Freelance Journalists in Asia (April 2023)
Spoke about Splice Beta in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on freelancing and journalism in Asia (Nov 2022)
Panelist on a webinar hosted by Mongabay on How to cover Reforestation (Mar 2022)