Treasury of the World
Exclusive Press Club Guided Tour
Date: Friday, 19 Mar 2010
Time: 7-7.30pm Light Refreshments, 7.30-9pm Tour
Place: Asian Civilisations Museum (1 Empress Place)
Patrick Daniel
President, Singapore Press Club
Message from the President
Welcome to the relaunched website of the Singapore Press Club.
We hope to use this website to update members on the activities of the Club as well as our membership benefits. With our membership directory to be made available online soon, we hope members will use this website to network and engage with their peers and colleagues.
President
Patrick Daniel
Vice Presidents
Leslie Fong
Lau Joon-Nie
Bhagman Singh
Hon Secretary
George Joseph
Asst Hon Secretary
Zakir Hussain
Hon Treasurer
Elsie Chua
Asst Hon Treasurer
Ronald Lam
Committee Members
Vikram Khanna
Conrad Raj
Peter Lim
Cassandra Tay
Carol Foo
Pauline Tan
Narendra Aggarwal
Lau Joon-Nie
Vice-President,
Singapore Press Club
Young Professionals Chapter
With over 500 members, the Singapore Press Club is proud to have some of Singapore’s most talented editors, journalists across all media platforms and PR professionals on its register. We also provide an excellent focal point for senior and junior members of the media profession to mix and mingle over talks, socials, film screenings, excursions, friendly games and outdoor activities. You may have noticed a burst of “non-traditional” activities in 2008 with the launch of our Young Media Professionals Chapter for those under 40. It’s all part of the drive to get the new entrants into the profession onboard and cater to the diverse interests of our younger members. Be part of Singapore’s largest organization of media and media-related professionals today!
NEWSPAPERS
- Guardian will be “World’s No 1 Newspaper” [Campaign, 24 Feb 2010] Plans by the New York Times and Rupert Murdoch to erect pay walls around their online newspapers may result in the U.K.’s Guardian becoming the world’s biggest English-language newspaper.
BROADCAST MEDIA
- TV’s Future - Mobile, Interactive – Not Free [CNN Money.com, 24 Feb 2010] In the near future, television is going to be available anywhere, on any device, at any time. Just don’t expect it to be free, analysts say.
NEW MEDIA
- Watching the Games? Switch on your cellphone [Reuters, 23 Feb 2010] Cellphones and the internet are muscling in on more traditional media as ways to see the Olympic Games, and the trend will only deepen.
CIRCULATION/VIEWERSHIP
- Twitter, Facebook use up 82 percent [Cnet News, 22 Feb 2010] According to The Nielsen Company, global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from 2008.
SURVEYS/REPORTS
- Newspaper Web Sites Still Top Source for Local Info But Competition is Closing In [Editor & Publisher, 24 Feb 2010] A new survey from the Newspaper Association of America and comScore rated newspaper Web sites as the top source for local information, followed closely by online portals and local TV web sites.
Media Companies
- Media firms starting to pay dividends again [Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb 2010] As the credit crunch dissipates, media heavyweights such as Time Warner and News Corp. are increasing their payouts to shareholders.
JOURNALISM
- Anonymous video of Neda Aghan-Soltan’s death wins Polk award [Guardian Digital Content Blog, 16 Feb 2010] New ‘videography’ category reflects rising professional use of user-created content.
