NEW YORK. Times Asian announced on August 10, 2026, that Editor-in-Chief Raju Lama had appointed Scott Douglas Jacobsen as its editor for Canada and Ukraine affairs.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen is a Canadian independent journalist, interviewer, editor, and publisher. He is the Founder and Publisher of In-Sight Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Interviews, formerly In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal.
His published work covers human rights, science, secularism and humanism, international affairs, politics, culture, basic income, and related subjects. The UCI Ethics Center: His research at UCI has included qualitative interviews concerning women scientists and their experiences in academic institutions.
Jacobsen has published extensively across several platforms. The Good Men Project currently identifies him as a writer and editor with more than 2,000 publications on the site. International Policy Digest states that he has published more than 100 articles with that publication. His work has also appeared in The Humanist, Basic Income Earth Network, Humanist Perspectives, Humanists International, and other outlets.
Likewise, he maintains a bibliographical archive known as the Jacobsen Bank. A May 2026 analysis published by In-Sight Publishing reports 10,494 archived publication entries across 205 outlets, with a higher estimate of more than 10,842 entries when material not yet archived is included. The database includes articles, interviews, republications, clippings, and related publication records. The Jacobsen Bank is maintained by Jacobsen rather than by an independent bibliometric service.
Jacobsen has also been associated with the University of California, Irvine Ethics Center. He was a UCI Ayala Scholar, where they preserve material connected with his research on women’s rights, gender equality, and academia. The Ethics Center lists him among its 2022–2023 Jerome and Hazel Tobis Fellows and describes his research as focusing on women scientists in academic settings. He was a Tobis Fellow for the 2023–2024 academic year. He held this position in 2016–2017, Tobis Fellowship, too.
Jacobsen has held positions in humanist organizations. He held Vice-President of the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organisation (IHEYO) and Secretary-General of Young Humanists International. He was a Humanist Canada member of the Board of Directors and former chair of its Essay Contest Committee.
He has made repeated reporting trips to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion. In February 2026, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine reported that he had travelled to Ukraine for a third time. NUJU has subsequently documented his meetings and interviews with Ukrainian journalists, including media workers operating in frontline and war-affected regions, as well as visits to Journalists’ Solidarity Centers in Lviv and Dnipro.
Jacobsen’s published record consists principally of long-form interviews, independent journalism, and publishing, together with work related to human-rights research, humanist organizations, and reporting from Ukraine. His interviews and articles include discussions with academics, scientists, activists, journalists, political and religious figures, humanists, writers, and specialists in a range of fields.
