11th S R Nathan Fellow – Patrick Daniel
Mr Patrick DANIEL is a veteran journalist and editor with a three-decade career with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). Prior to joining the media industry, he served in the Singapore Government Administrative Service, where his last position was Director in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
He joined SPH as a Senior Writer in The Straits Times in October 1986. He moved to the Business Times where he was Editor for 10 years from 1992 to 2002. He then assumed the role of Managing Editor of SPH's English, Malay and Tamil newspapers, before becoming Editor-in-Chief from 2007 to 2016. He retired as SPH’s Deputy CEO in August 2017 and served as a consultant to SPH until August 2018.
Mr Daniel returned to the media industry in July 2021 when he was appointed a Director and Interim CEO of the SPH Media Trust which took over the media business of SPH in December 2021. He stepped down from his role as Interim CEO in March 2022.
Mr Daniel graduated from University College, Oxford in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Engineering Sciences and Economics. He also has a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
His other current appointments include President of the Singapore Press Club, Non-Executive Director of Sembcorp Marine Ltd, Stewardship Asia Centre, Vibranium Capital Pte Ltd and Imperial Gloucester Pte Ltd, as well as Non-Executive Chairman of ShareInvestor Holdings Pte Ltd and trustee at EHL (Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne) Singapore.
His previous appointments included chairing several SPH subsidiaries and serving on the boards of the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the National University Health System Ltd, The Esplanade Company Ltd, the Casino Regulatory Authority and Equal-Ark Singapore Ltd.
11th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series — Stewardship of the Singapore Media: Staying the Course
Singapore’s media landscape has undergone a long series of changes from 1824 when the early colonial-era newspapers were launched. The Straits Times, founded in 1845, has survived to this day as the flagship of SPH Media Trust. In the last two decades, however, with the rapid rise of technology giants and myriad Internet media, legacy news media have suffered severe disruption. What does the future hold for the media and journalism? The 11th S R Nathan Fellow, Mr Patrick Daniel, will examine the pressing issues facing Singapore’s legacy media. Will the new SPH Media Trust, which will receive government funding support if approved by Parliament, be independent and offer the diversity of views desired by its audiences? Will Singapore's regulatory regime be eased or tightened? Will global tech platforms and online media be regulated by their governments to prevent the spread of fake news? And what future trends and challenges will Singapore and the media have to contend with next?
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