Ah, Datuk Nuraina Pak Samad

Datuk Nuraina & Hei Kersani

Anak Bapak. Ena, 55 this August, a Singapore-born Malaysian journalist for the last 3 decades or so, the Managing Editor of the New Straits Times, receives her Panglima Mahkota Wilayah this morning at the Istana Melawati in Putrajaya. I believe she is the first non-group editor/editor-in-chief/group editor-in-chief of the New Straits Times Press, the paper she joined back in 1978, who's been bestowed a datukship from the Agong.

She blogs at 3540 Jalan Sudin, which she started after we both left NST in February 2006, exactly 5 years ago. There's a book coming based on her Tuesdays with Bapak series, which had a good run until the death of her father Tan Sri A. Samad Ismail the Tokoh Wartawan Negara in Sept 2008. She co-founded the now-defunct National Alliance of Bloggers  and the NURIN Alert, which was recently adopted by the Cabinet and renamed NUR Alert. Datuk Nuraina is a trustee for the National Press Club and sits on the exco of the interim Blog House Malaysia, a new association to protect bloggers.

She is a product of ITM.

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