Biography

Poh Si Teng is a freelance video journalist and multimedia producer based in India.

She shoots and produces breaking news and feature videos for The New York Times and GlobalPost. Her past clients include The Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse and AP Travel. She has also shot and produced video packages for UNICEF and IKEA.

In India, she has reported on a wide range of issues such as the country’s looming food crisis, illegal medical practices, $2 billion-health fund scandal and bomb blasts in New Delhi.

In 2010, Poh Si and a colleague were awarded a reporting fellowship from the South Asian Journalists Association to shoot and produce a three-part video package called “India: Armed and Dangerous,” on the country’s illegal small arms trade. It won an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). And in 2008, she directed and produced a documentary on Muslim transsexual sex workers in Malaysia, which garnered the Justin Louis Award at the Freedom Film Festival in Kuala Lumpur.

Before being based in Asia, Poh Si was a multimedia producer for The Associated Press in Miami. She has taught multimedia storytelling at the AP, The Virginian-Pilot and most recently, The Times of India, the world’s largest English circulation publication.

Poh Si was also the director and co-founder of theCICAK, a Malaysian political, pop culture magazine and social networking site from 2005 to 2008.

Born and raised in Penang, Malaysia, she currently resides in New Delhi.