Gwen Robinson, a driving force in Asia journalism, dies at 65

Gwen Robinson, a driving force in Asia journalism, dies at 65 Gwen Robinson, a driving force in Asia journalism, dies at 65

TOKYO — Gwen Akiko Robinson, Nikkei Asia’s Bangkok-based editor-at-large, has died at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer.

Throughout her life, she was a “walking internet router,” keeping in touch effectively with every contributor and journalist colleague in Asia and elsewhere. She had friends to hang out with in every city she visited. She enabled Nikkei Asia to take advantage of her vast human nexus to develop its reporting team and contributor pool, as well as to promote Nikkei as a global media outlet.