Former Straits Occasions atmosphere correspondent Audrey Tan has returned to Singapore’s highest circulating newspaper lower than two years after leaving the journalism commerce.
Tan departs from the Nationwide College of Singapore (NUS), the place she led science communication and outreach efforts at two analysis institutes: the Centre for Nature-based Local weather Options and the Tropical Marine Science Institute.
She will likely be supervising the atmosphere desk of The Straits Occasions as an assistant information editor. Tan had briefly taken on the identical designation earlier than she left the newspaper in October 2022, although she had been atmosphere correspondent in a lot of her earlier 9 years on the publication.
“I miss journalism,” Tan instructed Eco-Enterprise when requested about her newest transfer.
“It has been an excellent 15 or so months with NUS, experimenting with new outreach actions and codecs,” she stated, pointing to marine wildlife-themed yoga periods on the Tropical Marine Science Institute final 12 months.
“However I do recognise and miss the distinctive means that journalists have in asking powerful or probing questions, to get to the crux of a number of the key environmental challenges that we face at this time,” Tan added.
Tan had in 2022 instructed Eco-Enterprise she joined the analysis institutes at NUS to lift the worldwide profile of Singapore and Southeast Asia’s scientific experience on nature-based options.
On the varsity, Tan hosted panel discussions, organised networking occasions and penned briefings on sustainability issues. She was additionally a part of the Singapore nation pavilion in 2022’s COP27 and final 12 months’s COP28 world local weather summits.
In her earlier stint at The Straits Occasions, Tan’s extra notable tales included an investigation into the hyperlinks between Singapore agribusiness firms and forest fires in Indonesia. In 2018, she produced an investigative sequence on animal trafficking in Southeast Asia.
Tan was the newspaper’s Journalist of the 12 months in 2021, and sits on the advisory committee for the Southeast Asia Rainforest Journalism Fund, which is managed by US-based media group Pulitzer Middle.
Tan will return to a group of atmosphere journalists that features local weather change editor David Fogarty, correspondent Cheryl Tan and reporter Shabana Begum.
