About the Programme/Event

When news and journalism evolved from print to digital, it overhauled the news industry impacting how news is produced, and consumed. A session that promises to be insightful, join this panel with Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, and Rolf Dobelli, acclaimed writer of The Art of Thinking Clearly, to glean into shifts in news-making and news-reading today; and how to be discerning news readers.

About the Speakers

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss writer, novelist and entrepreneur, best known for writing The Art of Thinking Clearly. He has published several fiction and non-fiction books, which have reached bestsellers lists in various countries across the world including Singapore; and translated into 42 languages. He does not consume news, with the exception of the magazines The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Science and Nature. He writes about this in his latest book Stop Reading the News, which offers readers guidance on how to live without news and the potential gains.

Alan Rusbridger is an accomplished British journalist and editor-in-chief of UK’s The Guardian News and Media from 1995 to 2015. During his tenure, he oversaw The Guardian’s transition to digital operations. During his editorship, The Guardian won multiple journalism awards, broke the story of Edward Snowden, and overtook The New York Times to become the largest serious English language newspaper digital operation in the world. Alan’s latest book on Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why it Matters Now examines the impact of technology on the news landscape.

About the Moderator

Edson C. Tandoc Jr is an Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. His research focuses on the sociology of message construction in the context of digital journalism. He has conducted studies on the construction of news and social media messages and has studied journalism from the perspective of news consumers as well.

About Reading in the Age of Distraction

Reading in the Age of Distraction is a 5-part conversation featuring acclaimed international thinkers on reading well in the digital age. Speakers include Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains, Rolf Dobelli, author of The Art of Thinking Clearly, Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian and Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. More details on all sessions can be found on go.gov.sg/rad!

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