In what is seen as a positive sign for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s leadership, bloggers are going back to the mainstream, with Datuk Ahmad Talib, who runs the ‘Pahit Manis’blog, taking the lead, with his appointment as Executive Director of Media Prima Bhd last month.
Media Prima, the largest media group in Malaysia, owns the New Straits Times Press (NSTP), TV3, TV7, TV8 and TV9 . As owner of NSTP, it also controls English newspapers like the New Straits Times and the Malay Mail and Malay newspapers such as Berita Harian and Harian Metro.
Popular blogger Ahirudin ‘Rockybru’ Attan is also back at the NST, with his appointment as head of the Malay Mail. During his first meeting with his staff, he has asked them to buy a pair of jeans.
Rocky’s reason:”We are going to promote free press, but like jeans and everything else in life, there are limits to what we can do.” (That, I must agree with you bro! Nothing is FREE in this world. About wearing jeans, I have my reservations!).
Start a Blog: Good idea!
NSTP has also announced the appointment of another blogger Nuraina Samad as Managing Editor, a post once held by her late father, A. Samad Ismail.
According to Rocky’s Bru, Nuraina is now the newspaper’s most senior editor after Zainul Arifin, the Group Managing Editor of NSTP and Syed Nadzri, the Group Editor.
Congratulations Nuraina, we are all proud of you. It is a welcome change, given that you are the first woman to hold this top editorial post in the NST.
Also taking the same route is Ashraf Abdullah, who runs the blog Jejak Pujangga. He has been appointed TV3 Group Editor, a new post created under Ahmad Talib.
Congratulations also go to another blogger, Fauziah Ismail, who is now Chief News Editor of NST. She has a blog titled 'Latte @ Chinoz On The Park'.
Now that bloggers are back in the mainstream, will they make a difference?
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