New Bloom interviewed Chen Hui-min, legislative candidate for the NPP in Fengshan, Kaohsiung, on December 11th. Originally a professor of sociology, Chen was previously active in the Civil Alliance to Promote Constitutional Reform, Taiwan March, and became the first secretary-general of the NPP...
New Bloom interviewed Puma Shen, assistant professor at the National Taipei University’s Graduate School of Criminology and the director of the DoubleThink Labs, on issues regarding fake news and disinformation in Taiwan before the election and efforts to combat this...
New Bloom interviewed Gao Yu-ting, legislative candidate for the NPP in Hsinchu City, on December 11th. Gao, originally an engineer, was part of the post-Sunflower Movement group Island March before joining the NPP...
New Bloom interviewed Zoe Lee, party list legislative candidate for the Green Party, on November 29th. Lee is a human rights and environmental lawyer, best known for handling cannabis-related cases, and her podcast about weed-related issues...
New Bloom interviewed Lii Wen, legislative candidate for the DPP in Mazu, on December 13th. Lii previously worked as a reporter for the Taipei Times, in the international section of the DPP and other government institutions, and as a DPP spokesperson...
Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.