Numlock Sunday: Louise Matsakis on Made In China

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week, I spoke to Louise Matsakis, who along with Zeyi Yang is launching the Made in China newsletter over at WIRED. Both Matsakis and Yang have appeared in Numlock before and I’m deeply interested in each of their beats, the new newsletter promises to be a fascinating look at China and Wired in particular has done phenomenal work lately.

Matsakis can be found at WIRED, where she writes Made In China.

This interview has been condensed and edited.

Louise, thank you so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me.

I am just such a fan of the work that you and your colleague Zeyi do when it comes to coverage of China. I know that you’re both at Wired and you’re launching something cool, but I’d love to just take a step back and hear a little bit about some of your work and what gets you really interested these days, so that folks can understand your beat a bit.

Sure, yeah, so I came at the China beat originally from the perspective of being…