https://www.scmp.com/rss/502270/feed Warren Fernandez is editor-in-chief of The Straits Times and also president of the World Editors Forum. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Getting to school as a boy growing up in Singapore in the 1970s could be soggy affair at times. Tropical downpours overwhelmed drainage systems, leaving parts of the island impassable. Students braved the rains and rising waters, turning up wet and bedraggled, if they made it at all. Thankfully, this became a thing of the past by the late 1980s. Massive flood alleviation efforts caused this story to recede from newspaper front pages, as a modern city state emerged. Yet, decades on, we seem to be... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/world/article/3150408/coronavirus-struggle-points-difficulty-tackling-climate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/world/article/3150408/coronavirus-struggle-points-difficulty-tackling-climate?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:15:23 +0000 More than 150 newsrooms from around the world will come together on September 28 to mark World News Day, including journalists from Toronto to Taipei, Spain to Singapore. This, however, is not an occasion for journalists to pat ourselves on the back for the work we do. Rather, the focus is on how journalists go about reporting on issues that matter to our audiences. Amid the Covid-19 outbreak, audiences have turned to professional journalists like never before. They want answers on how to stay... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103100/coronavirus-reminder-need-reliable-sustainable-media?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103100/coronavirus-reminder-need-reliable-sustainable-media?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:30:16 +0000 As the coronavirus continues its relentless spread across the world, infecting more than 1.5 million people and killing tens of thousands, news stories of lockdowns, social distancing and overwhelmed hospitals have been making the headlines just about everywhere. Newsrooms have been working overtime to keep the communities they serve updated. Audiences have surged. Apart from news reports, people are turning to analysis and commentaries, videos and explainers, to help them make sense of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3079344/credible-media-vital-fight-against-coronavirus-and-epidemic-fake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3079344/credible-media-vital-fight-against-coronavirus-and-epidemic-fake?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Apr 2020 03:35:04 +0000 The poster boy for robust health in the media industry used to have decidedly Indian features. Even as their counterparts elsewhere languished, Indian media houses were once busy launching new titles, snapping up journalists and boosting orders for newsprint, bucking global trends several years ago. Today, sadly, a pall appears to have settled over many of these newsrooms. “We need to change … we are playing catch-up now,” one top Indian editor told me at a dinner on the sidelines of the World... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3030241/will-fake-news-save-journalism-media-must-continue-innovating?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3030241/will-fake-news-save-journalism-media-must-continue-innovating?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:00:07 +0000