Beefing up newsrooms, improving user experience top priorities amid SPH restructuring: Khaw Boon Wan | Video Singapore
12 May 2021 11:10PM)
Ensuring a smooth transition amid the restructuring, beefing up newsrooms and improving user experience for Singapore Press Holding’s (SPH) media products are among the key priorities for Mr Khaw Boon Wan, who will chair the entity overseeing SPH’s media business when it is hived off. Tan Si Hui with this report.
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SPH media restructuring: Keeping the faith, keeping the trust
Senior Political Correspondent
Visitors viewing interactive displays at the ST170 exhibition held at the ArtScience Museum in 2015. For the newspaper, which celebrated its 175th anniversary last year and has seen more than its fair share of convulsions, this restructuring is as good a time as any to transform, so that it can serve the public better and maintain its trust, says the writer.ST FILE PHOTO
PublishedMay 11, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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Call it a series of coincidences but my maternal granduncle passed away. While the timing was not something he planned, his death took place a day or two after Singapore Press Holding’s (SPH) CEO, Mr Ng Yat Chung, gave his now infamous “Umbrage” press conference when he was asked about editorial integrity in the newly restructured company.
I never had a chance to know my maternal grand-uncle. We met for all of five minutes when he showed up at my grandmother’s wake in 2006 and my mother pointed out that had her father lived, he would have looked like his younger brother, my grand-uncle. So, I will leave the personal tribute to my granduncle’s granddaughter, which can be found at:
Singapore News - A high-quality and respected media with Singaporean journalists who are keenly attuned to the country's unique circumstances and report news objectively for Singaporeans is essential to "the fabric of the nation", said Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran. Read more at www.tnp.sg
SPH Media s editorial integrity questioned in SG parliament debate Details 11 May 2021
Singapore s communications and information minister S. Iswaran and leader of the opposition Pritam Singh crossed swords in parliament yesterday over funding and editorial independence of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) new media entity. Last week, SPH said it is transferring its media business to a newly-formed public company limited by guarantee (CLG). Iswaran said in a ministerial statement yesterday that SPH Media must chart its own course to revise - and if necessary, reinvent - its business model for the digital age. He added that the government is committed to supporting the media business as it builds capabilities and adapts for a digital future.