Reluctant Editor

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• Publisher: MarshallCavendishEditions
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9789814868037
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years. Above all, they are Singapore media stories as experienced first-hand by a veteran journalist who had to be persuaded to become Editor of a leading newspaper. PN Balji was an active participant in mainstream journalism, having spent nearly 40 years working in five newsrooms. He was part of a hardy generation of newspaper editors who wrestled with editorial issues and made tough decisions, sometimes against the will of authority. He also had a ringside view of his colleagues' tussles and confrontations with the government. In Reluctant Editor, Balji weaves a compelling narrative, with anecdotes, of an alternative story of how some editors of his generation managed to hold the ground in challenging times.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Author’s Note
• Chapter 1 My Father’s Son: The chapter I didn’t want to write
• Chapter 2 Accidental Sub-editor, Reluctant Editor: In a world of tabloids
• Chapter 3 Living Dangerously: Who is that practising western-style journalism?
• Chapter 4 The Misunderstood Paper: What a foreign editor saw that others did not
• Chapter 5 Toh Chin Chye Affair: A footloose newsroom culture gone wrong
• Chapter 6 Indian Fever: And TNP’s role in it
• Chapter 7 Big, Bold and Sometimes Ugly: An apology is in store
• Chapter 8 TODAY Bets on Goh Chok Tong: Chairman Cheng makes split-second decision
• Chapter 9 TODAY Arrives, SPH Miscalculates: And media history is made
• Chapter 10 Last of the Mohicans: Why the editors of old did it differently
• Annex
• About the Author