Reluctant Editor: The Singapore Media As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Veteran Newspaper Journalist Sociology as well as on the

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But these men and women are never what they appear to be

Offering a compelling invitation to understand

She describes the daily difficulties of being at once American and Chinese and yet feeling at times like she was truly neither

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Reluctant Editor: The Singapore Media As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Veteran Newspaper Journalist Sociology as well as on theThese are the unpublished stories behind the headlines you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years. Above all, they are Singapore media stories experienced firsthand by veteran journalist PN Balji, who was persuaded to become editor of a leading newspaper. Balji spent nearly 40 years in five newsrooms and was part of a hardy generation of editors who wrestled with editorial issues and made tough decisions, sometimes against authority. He