Dnlwnsteven Wei

6 years of experience in journalism, editing, and content operations. Seeking roles in journalism, editing, or content operations. Open to remote work with target city Shanghai.

Image Copyright & Content Operations Manager at Shanghai Tuchong Network Technology Co., Ltd. (2024-09 – Present)

Led end-to-end operations and data infrastructure for licensed image syndication, building a multi-source data pipeline ("in-house crawling + external data collection + multi-platform integration") while establishing an AI-search content strategy. Drove copyright monetization, client retention, and revenue growth through standardized operations, and delivered compliant image-licensing services to enterprise clients to mitigate infringement risk.

• Built a company-wide data collection and cleansing pipeline using SQL and standardized operating workflows: increased core content-crawling volume by 487% and content-matching volume by 1,000%, and improved data validity rate from 1.19% to 32.7%.
• Drove growth in the syndication business, exceeding confirmed-revenue targets by RMB 5M+ (2024–2026); syndication data also supported contract renewals worth RMB 4.7M+ with major clients including Phoenix New Media and NetEase.
• Built a closed-loop rights-monetization system ("automated infringement detection + evidence preservation + business conversion"), generating 16,000+ rights-protection leads annually.
• Led the GEO (Generative Engine Optimization / AI search optimization) initiative from 0 to 1, completing baseline testing across mainstream AI platforms and vendor selection, and establishing long-term infrastructure for AI-driven content traffic growth.

Image Copyright & Content Operations / Product Operations at ByteDance (2020-09 – 2024-09)

Focused on content production and compliance governance, covering current-affairs and financial-news content curation, campaign operations, major breaking-news coverage, and content-policy and resource management.

• Led planning and execution of coverage for 60+ major and breaking news events, including the National People's Congress sessions, the 20th National Congress, and the Zhengzhou flooding, overseeing political and financial image curation, campaign operations, and editing.
• Partnered with 60+ domestic and international media outlets and PGC sources, including China News Service and Reuters, building a resource-integration and publishing management system; trained outsourced editorial teams and set content standards.
• Worked with the security team to build an end-to-end "intake → review → publish" compliance system aligned with Cyberspace Administration of China policy; led the launch of regional content channels, generating RMB 3M+ in revenue and 400,000+ crowdsourced submissions.

Video Editor at Phoenix News (2019-04 – 2019-08)

• Edited international current-affairs video content and provided live-broadcast interpretation; produced a video on Shinzo Abe's stance against talks with South Korea that reached #1 on Weibo's trending topics, with 6M+ views.

Master's Degree in New Media – University of Leeds (2019 – 2020)

Bachelor's Degree in Journalism – Xiamen University (2016 – 2019)