Maya Pope-Chappell

Maya Pope-Chappell is the Senior Managing Editor of Audience Engagement and Distribution for LinkedIn. Prior to joining LinkedIn, they spent four years as the Founding Social Media & Analytics Editor for Asia for The Wall Street Journal. In this role, they were responsible for developing the social media strategy for Asia, overseeing the launch of the WSJ's official WeChat and Line accounts, and increasing the region's engagement and overall social traffic to WSJ.com. Maya also trained editors and reporters on how to leverage social media to find sources, break news, engage readers, verify content, and promote their work.

Pope-Chappell began their career as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, where they were selected for a pilot job-swap program. Maya then spent two years at The Wall Street Journal Asia, where they covered stocks, breaking news, and wrote feature stories on finance.

Their manager is Daniel Roth, VP & Editor In Chief. A direct report to Maya Pope-Chappell is and Andrew Seaman - Senior News Editor. Maya Pope-Chappell works with Jessi Hempel - Senior Editor at Large, Katie Carroll - Head of News, North America and UK, and Satoshi Ebitani - Managing Editor, Japan.