Michelle Toh is an award-winning multimedia journalist for CNN based in Hong Kong.
She currently serves as a writer and reporter for CNN International, covering business and tech across Asia Pacific.
Toh has covered some of the top stories in global business, including the disruption and inequality caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the corporate response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European energy crisis, the crackdown in China on private enterprise, the Evergrande debacle, the US-China trade war, the fallout from the Hong Kong protests, and Huawei's battle in the United States.
She has also covered the recent historic market turbulence and some of the world's biggest public offerings, including those of Grab, Didi, Kuaishou, and Coupang. Toh's reporting frequently appears across both CNN's digital and television platforms, and she often contributes to the network's "Meanwhile in China" newsletter. Her work has also been featured on air in CNN’s “Marketplace Asia” and “CEO Daily” series.
In 2022, Toh won an Award of Excellence from the Society of News Design for a project that she led across six bureaus about workplace discrimination of Asians around the world. In 2017, she was part of the CNN team that was nominated for an EPPY Award for Best Mobile App.
Toh has booked and interviewed some of the world's top business leaders, including:
She has secured exclusive reporting on companies including Disney, Netflix, Nestle, OmniFoods and Cathay Pacific.
Prior to joining CNN, Toh was the Hong Kong editor of Fortune Magazine. Her work has been featured in publications including TIME, USA Today, the South China Morning Post, and HuffPost, covering a wide breadth of topics, from politics and immigration to fashion, culture and lifestyle. She has moderated at or covered major international conferences, such as CES in Las Vegas and Shanghai, Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Laguna Niguel, California, and RISE in Hong Kong.
Toh holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California, where she won the Penny Lernoux Award for International Reporting. She also studied Mandarin at Tsinghua University in Beijing and journalism at City University of London.
Toh is Malaysian-Chinese and grew up in Hong Kong.
