Alan Soon

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Alan Soon

Alan Soon is the founder and CEO of The Splice Newsroom, an editorial consultancy that is helping newsrooms keep up with the constant change brought on by the digital shift. For more than 20 years, he's worked in radio, TV, news wires, magazine and online across the region. He started out as a reporter and grew into producer, editor, newsroom manager and eventually business leadership roles. In his last position, Alan led one of the largest digital news teams in the industry as Yahoo’s managing editor for India and Southeast Asia. He also worked at esteemed newsrooms such as CNBC and Bloomberg across Asia. He is a co-founder of the Online News Association in Singapore.

Transforming newsrooms

Lessons learned from two years of questioning how the media works

Alan Soon

Posted: 17 March 2017

It’s been two years since I registered and started The Splice Newsroom. My goal hasn’t changed: I’m here because I believe newsrooms and their teams need a lot of help to evolve and survive. I want to be part of the solution.

Over the past...

“Fact and truth are very different things”

What digital and decentralised means for the news

Alan Soon

Posted: 26 January 2017

Alan Soon keeps his finger firmly on the pulse.

As founder and CEO of The Splice Newsroom he is a devoted observer of digital developments in the media sphere. Backed by...