Singapore Chronicles: Media travel first Singaporean

first Singaporean

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awarded the Institution of Public Character status

as Singapore’s founding father

driven by the two conventional security concerns of protecting the country’s

Singapore Chronicles: Media travel first SingaporeanThis monograph outlines the development of Singapores media from the first government subsidised newspaper to radio, TV, Rediffusion, the Internet and todays social media. Going beyond just the dates, it shows how the media in Singapore had once been extremely competitive, that Singapore was a media hub for Malay intellectuals in the region and how the newspaper licensing rules were inherited from the British who set the tone by curbing an English