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Front row, from left: Yee, Lee, Jimmy, Lo, Tiong, Chu, Zhang, Edward, Yong, Teo, Jimmy, Wui Chung, Yeo, Yeh, Frankie, Wong and the advisors at the cake cutting ceremony to celebrate KKJA’s 25th anniversary.
September 2nd, 2017 | 09:08 AM | 1576 views
KOTA KINABALU
Media practitioners, like professionals and workers in other fields, need to be well prepared for the continuing changes brought about by the information and communication technology in order to remain relevant in the journalism industry.
“We have entered the age of new media with the advancement of information technology,” noted Kota Kinabalu Journalists Association (KKJA) chairman Yong Ted Phen.
“The emergence of social and digital media has transformed the way conventional media operate,” he said.
He said conventional media now had to embrace technology to deliver breaking news instantly to our readers via social media or websites.
“More importantly, we have to uphold accuracy, objectivity and impartiality in reporting,” Yong said at the association’s 25th Anniversary celebration cum Press Night at Hakka Hall on Thursday.
In conjunction with its silver jubilee, KKJA presented Long Service Awards to 30 senior reporters and editors who have served and are still working in the journalism industry for 25 years and above.
Among the award recipients were Hii Yuk Seng, who has served and is still working after 51 years in the industry.
Yong said KKJA was registered with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) in 1992 with honorary advisor Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye’s assistance.
“I personally feel that fate has brought me to KKJA. When KKJA was established in 1992, the association has invited the Northern Sarawak Journalists Association to participate in the climb up Mount Kinabalu.”
Yong said he was then a reporter in Miri and a committee member of the Northern Sarawak Journalists Association.
“I accepted the invitation and that was how I met and befriended KKJA founding chairman Mr Jimmy Goh and the reporters in Kota Kinabalu.”
In the following year, Yong was transferred from See Hua Daily News in Miri to Kota Kinabalu and was invited to join KKJA by Jimmy.
“The rest is history. During the past two decades, I have served different posts in the committee and eventually I was given the opportunity to lead the association.”
He said the association had been actively safeguarding its members’ interests and maintaining good relationship with local government and community leaders for the past 25 years.
Also present at the event were Minister of Special Tasks Datuk Teo Chee Kang, Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Edward Yong Oui Fah, Senator Datuk Yong Wui Chung, Acting Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Kota Kinabalu Zhang He, advisors Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, Tan Sri David Chu, Tan Sri Joseph Lo, Datuk Seri Panglima Dr T.C. Goh, Mayor Datuk Yeo Boon Hai, Datuk Clement Yeh, Datuk Tiong Tan Hua, Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, Datuk Chin Su Phin, Datuk Paul Lim, Datuk Frankie Liew, Datuk Francis Goh, Datuk James Hwong, Datuk Lau Kok Sing, Datuk Michael Lui, Datuk Yii Ching Siew, Datuk Karen Lee, Wong Kee Mee, Chin Tek Ming, Dr Wah Hai Sit, Tai Khiam Hiong, Li Su Fook, Candy Wong, Fred Fung, Eliza Goh and Henry Kong.
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courtesy of THE BORNEO POST
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