Reposted from Redwire Times Singapore
“If you want to bash out a story
without checking facts, there is a market for that. But that’s not
our market.”
That was the criticism heaped on
independent news websites by Patrick Daniel, the editor-in-chief of
English and Malay newspapers for Singapore Press Holdings.
He said that while independent news
websites in Singapore “have their audience”, they serve people who
are less interested in credible news.
“The online publishing space is
wide, and we can’t be all things to everyone. So we just have to
know who our audience is and be the trusted source of
information.”
“They have their audience and we
have ours. All power to them,” he said. “We have our audience to
serve, and we have to do as good a job as we can.”
Daniel also said that SPH isn’t
afraid of competition from international news agencies.
“Our strength is that we know our
town best, it’s our territory. We have far more resources to throw
at a story locally,”
