On October 2022, INMA awarded 30 young professionals around the world with its third “30 Under 30” award as part of its Young Professionals Initiative. This is the fifth in a series of 30 features about the impressive rising media stars who are shaping our industry.

After working as a freelance Web developer in college, Taishi joined Nikkei as a full-stack engineer. Since 2015, he has driven product improvements for the company while leveraging a wide range of skills from the back end to the front end.

One of his first projects was to develop Nikkei’s iOS app, which was the flagship product of the online edition and now has 800,000 paid subscribers. “User ratings for the Nikkei app have improved and [it won] the Japanese National Good Design Award in 2017,” he said.

Taishi also is in charge of developing Nikkei Wave, an experimental app that is introducing new ways of engaging with the news. Taishi sees these new ways of presenting the news as important vehicles for creating future customers: “If we can engage with young people and people with no experience in the media industry and try out new ideas that are not bound by precedent one after another, the media industry will be revitalised.

“Engineers, data scientists, and journalists collaborating with mutual respect and working together with a common purpose is the fastest way to create innovative content and products.”

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