Pei Ling Gan on Muck Rack

Pei Ling Gan

As seen in: The Star (Malaysia)
Covers:  Malaysian politics, environment, social issues
Writer. Social Scientist. Ex-Journalist.

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I have served as a staff writer with independent news sites The Malaysian Insight, The Nut Graph, English daily The Star, community weekly Selangor Times, business weekly Focus Malaysia, and Asia’s homegrown financial wire Nikkei Markets. In between, I have also served as a communication expert with the European Forest Institute (EFI), and a researcher with Malaysia’s National Water Services Commission (SPAN).

I wrote a monthly environmental column for The Nut Graph from 2010 to 2013. One of my…

What was your first job as a journalist?

To ask the prime minister of Malaysia why he barred the online media from a press conference.

How is social media changing news?

It's forcing to journalists to be more creative, original to get attention to their stories.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

A lifelong challenge to understand and report about this changing, complex world as it really is.