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Online workshop on COVID-19 fact-checking & source verification (29 Feb)
Dear members, The Asian American Journalists Association Asia Chapter is holding a fact-checking and source verification workshop on COVID-19 coverage for a limited number of its members and is sharing …Read More »Singapore Press Club appoints its first GM, seeks your feedback
Dear members, Last year, ahead of the start of a new decade and the Press Club’s 50th anniversary in 2021, your Management Committee (MC) held a retreat to plan for …Read More »Year-end party (December 17)
Dear Member Let us celebrate the closure of 2019 and usher in the new year with a party. The Singapore Press Club’s year-end party will be held at the top …Read More »Singapore Press Club: Last Day to Register for Bukit Brown Crazy Rich Asians Tour (Oct 19)
Last few places left: if you have registered and cannot make it, please inform us via your Peatix registration acknowledgment email or contact us at secretariat@pressclub.org.sg Dear members, It’s been seven long …Read More »Invitation: ‘Tackling Disinformation and Maintaining a Free and Open Internet’ (Sept 25)
Dear Member The British High Commission has invited members of the Singapore Press Club to attend a Discussion on “Tackling Disinformation and Maintaining a Free and Open Internet” which it is organising …Read More »Through The Lens organised by The Straits Times (Oct 4)
Dear Member The annual photo exhibition organized by The Straits Times at the National Museum of Singapore is back again. This year, it will be bigger and with more multimedia, …Read More »Art in Singapore & Beethoven im Garten
Dear Member, Stir up your creativity by taking part in one of these delightful activities! 1. Art in Singapore 2019: 19th Century Imaginaries Join senior curators, a local researcher and …Read More »Goodwill Mission to Uzbekistan (Nov 15 to 23)
Dear Member The Singapore Press Club’s Goodwill Mission this year will be to Uzbekistan from November 15 to 23. We have put together the itinerary (attached) with the help of the …Read More »Private Collection by artist Chen Wen Hsi (14 Sept)
Dear Members You are invited to view a private collection of works by one of Singapore’s pioneer artists – Chen Wen Hsi 陈文希. Hailed as the forefather of our Nanyang …Read More »
Good news for news organisations with foreign correspondents in the US. The Dept of Homeland Security has withdrawn controversial visa plans that would have limited their stay. 👏👏👏 to collective protest, led by @EBUs @corbil88 and Wouter Gekiere https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/06/2021-13929/establishing-a-fixed-time-period-of-admission-and-an-extension-of-stay-procedure-for-nonimmigrant
Hybrid working is here to stay but journalists need to be "sensible about it" https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/hybrid-working-is-here-to-stay-but-journalists-need-to-be-sensible-about-it-/s2/a842058/
Burner phones, fake sources and ‘evil twin’ attacks: journalism in the surveillance age | Bradley Hope https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/22/burner-phones-fake-sources-evil-twin-attacks-journalism-surveillance
Although banned in Myanmar, the use of VPNs remains widespread and platforms such as Twitter are still widely used to talk politics. Read more about how reporters are using social networks to cover news in that country:
https://buff.ly/2UgQkHM
"Transparency is now more important than ever — to hold officials accountable and to give Indigenous people a true picture of how Indian Country has been affected by COVID-19."
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2021/governments-created-an-informational-black-hole-for-indigenous-communities-and-covid-19/