One time mistress to then Commissioner of Police who was given unprecedented access to confidential investigations papers ( never given before and since, Alex Josey wrote his entire real crime series based on press clippings and court transcripts) has made it as Warren 's Deputy.
If you look at her background and career trajectory its a quite an interesting read. She unlike Warren did not go on a scholarship to Oxbridge or Ivy League. She started life as crime reporter but had the knack of hooking big fish with weak legs. An approach she has never changed. Its her interviews with important personalities on trivia and food that has kept her in the frame. Note how she is managed to make it to Han's good books and Old Man's memoirs.
Never known to write a single article of substance (unless someone can show me one, whereupon I would take to the sword) it has always been on the base instinct of mankind - the loin and the taste bud.
And she is expected to be in the leadership team on lifting content and readership.
It does tell everyone that intelligence is only one attribute, the ability to bare all in every sense of the word carries much more. I know more about her husband's ex-wife then I know about Ho Ching's sister.
Thats life.
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The Straits Times (ST) executive editor and popular columnist Sumiko Tan has been promoted to managing editor of the English/Malay/Tamil Media (EMTM) group at media giant Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).
Yahoo News Singapore. Tan, 53, will retain her role as executive editor and also serve as acting editor-in-chief when Fernandez is away." data-reactid="23" style="margin-bottom: 1em;">EMTM editor-in-chief and ST editor Warren Fernandez, 51, made the announcement on Monday (23 October) in an internal memo to SPH staff seen by Yahoo News Singapore. Tan, 53, will retain her role as executive editor and also serve as acting editor-in-chief when Fernandez is away.
“She will assist me in spearheading the move towards greater collaboration across our newsrooms. She will oversee the new EMTM Digital and Visual teams, with a view to ensuring that these serve all our newsrooms well,” said Fernandez.
The EMTM group comprises the print and digital operations of ST, several newspapers and their respective student publications. It also includes book publishing arm Straits Times Press and SPH’s two English radio stations.
Tan will replace EMTM managing editor Alvin Tay, who is retiring, from 1 November. Tay, a former editor of The Business Times (BT), assumed his current role last November. Tan became ST executive editor last July.
In another key appointment, deputy news editor Li Xueying, who is in her 30s, will become political editor. “Our goal must be (to) produce reliable and credible political news as well as thoughtful and insightful commentaries on Singapore politics and policy affairs,” said Fernandez.
Both SPH CEO Ng Yat Chung and deputy CEO Anthony Tan apologised to SPH staff five days later for the “serious lapse”.
Separately, Fernandez also announced that The Business Times and ST business desk will form a combined editorial team. It will supply business content to ST, BT and a new financial radio station to be launched in December.
The new team will be led by BT editor Wong Wei Kong, 49, who also retains his current role.
If you look at her background and career trajectory its a quite an interesting read. She unlike Warren did not go on a scholarship to Oxbridge or Ivy League. She started life as crime reporter but had the knack of hooking big fish with weak legs. An approach she has never changed. Its her interviews with important personalities on trivia and food that has kept her in the frame. Note how she is managed to make it to Han's good books and Old Man's memoirs.
Never known to write a single article of substance (unless someone can show me one, whereupon I would take to the sword) it has always been on the base instinct of mankind - the loin and the taste bud.
And she is expected to be in the leadership team on lifting content and readership.
It does tell everyone that intelligence is only one attribute, the ability to bare all in every sense of the word carries much more. I know more about her husband's ex-wife then I know about Ho Ching's sister.
Thats life.
PHOTO: Twitter
The Straits Times (ST) executive editor and popular columnist Sumiko Tan has been promoted to managing editor of the English/Malay/Tamil Media (EMTM) group at media giant Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).
Yahoo News Singapore. Tan, 53, will retain her role as executive editor and also serve as acting editor-in-chief when Fernandez is away." data-reactid="23" style="margin-bottom: 1em;">EMTM editor-in-chief and ST editor Warren Fernandez, 51, made the announcement on Monday (23 October) in an internal memo to SPH staff seen by Yahoo News Singapore. Tan, 53, will retain her role as executive editor and also serve as acting editor-in-chief when Fernandez is away.
“She will assist me in spearheading the move towards greater collaboration across our newsrooms. She will oversee the new EMTM Digital and Visual teams, with a view to ensuring that these serve all our newsrooms well,” said Fernandez.
The EMTM group comprises the print and digital operations of ST, several newspapers and their respective student publications. It also includes book publishing arm Straits Times Press and SPH’s two English radio stations.
Tan will replace EMTM managing editor Alvin Tay, who is retiring, from 1 November. Tay, a former editor of The Business Times (BT), assumed his current role last November. Tan became ST executive editor last July.
In another key appointment, deputy news editor Li Xueying, who is in her 30s, will become political editor. “Our goal must be (to) produce reliable and credible political news as well as thoughtful and insightful commentaries on Singapore politics and policy affairs,” said Fernandez.
Both SPH CEO Ng Yat Chung and deputy CEO Anthony Tan apologised to SPH staff five days later for the “serious lapse”.
Separately, Fernandez also announced that The Business Times and ST business desk will form a combined editorial team. It will supply business content to ST, BT and a new financial radio station to be launched in December.
The new team will be led by BT editor Wong Wei Kong, 49, who also retains his current role.
