Khaw Boon Wan on SPH Media challenges and digital transformation
Khaw Boon Wan is stepping down as chairman of SPH Media Trust, reflecting on the challenges of navigating digital transformation and maintaining journalistic credibility in a polarized media landscape. He emphasized the need for the organization to continue engaging younger audiences while managing the pressures of modern newsroom operations.
Why it matters
The transition highlights the ongoing struggle of legacy media organizations to adapt to digital disruption and shifting public expectations.
Khaw Boon Wan will be stepping down as chairman of SPH Media Trust.
Listen Summarise Khaw Boon Wan, outgoing chairman of SPH Media Trust, reflects on the challenges faced by its newsrooms and journalists, such as pressure from diverse audiences and online harassment. Under Khaw's leadership, SPH adapted to digital disruption by enhancing digital capabilities, securing government funding, and innovating on content to compete with global platforms. Khaw, who will retire on Oct 1, emphasised the need for SPH to continue engaging younger audiences, embrace technology, and maintain trust and credibility in Singapore's evolving media landscape. AI generated
SINGAPORE – Five years of steering SPH Media Trust (SMT) did not make Khaw Boon Wan a “media man”, but he can better appreciate the sector’s challenges.
“I am still not ‘a media man’, I still do not have the journalistic instincts in my blood,” said the chairman of SMT.
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