| Mr Felix Soh |
Head of Digital Media, |
English and Malay Newspapers Division, |
Singapore Press Holdings |
Mr Felix Soh is the Digital Media Editor of the English and Malay Newspapers Division of Singapore Press Holdings, South-east Asia 's largest publishing group. He was the Deputy Editor of The Straits Times, Asia 's largest-circulation English-language newspaper. He has been a journalist all his working life, almost all of it with The Straits Times where he has held various positions, including that of News Editor and Foreign Editor before assuming his present position as Digital Media Editor.
His journalistic speciality is security and defence and newspaper/web design. As a security and defence specialist, he has written extensively on the subject and has travelled around world on assignments. He has interviewed many world leaders and presented papers at various conferences on the subject. He is the author of a book on Singapore 's security history, Phoenix : The Story of the Home Team.
In the area of newspaper design, he has won several awards, including IFRA Publish Asia Awards and Society of Publishers of Asia Awards. His design expertise is known internationally. In 2003, he was invited to be in the panel of international judges at the Society of News Design's Best of Design Awards, the first design expert from Asia to be given the accolade. He led the team that redesigned The Sunday Times and The Straits Times. He also redesigned The Jakarta Post.
More than two years ago, he moved into the field of digital media and now heads all online operations for the English and Malay Newspapers Division of Singapore Press Holdings. In 2006, he conceptualized and launched the groundbreaking and successful social networking and citizen journalism website, Stomp, which received 70 million hits in its first year of operation. Stomp received many accolades at the recent World Association of Newspaper Congress in South Africa .
He has been involved with training for at least 20 years, as a regular trainer of journalists at intermediate and advanced levels at Singapore Press Holdings and as an adjunct professor teaching journalism at Singapore 's Nanyang Technological University . He has been the speaker at media seminars conducted by the private sector and government.
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