Oon Yeoh

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Who is Oon Yeoh?

Oon Yeoh is a Malaysian writer, editor and New Media consultant. He has nearly two decades of experience in the journalism and publishing industry spanning various media such as print, web and mobile.

Though his career has primarily been focused on news media work, from January 2007 through December 2008 he worked as a senior research scientist at Telenor Research & Innovation Centre Asia Pacific, located in Cyberjaya. He headed the "Mobile Media" project focusing on mobile web concepts. He returned to the journalism industry in January 2009, taking up the position of editor for New Media at The Edge. He left The Edge in June 2010.

As a new media consultant his clients included BFM89.9 and Multimedia Development Corporation. He also taught courses in interactive multimedia at UCSI. He is currently a senior consulting editor at MPH Publishing and a regional editor at Hwang DBS Vickers. He writes a weekly current affairs column which appears in theSun every Wednesday.

Yeoh is widely regarded as the country's first political blogger, having launched his "Transitions" blog on Malaysiakini on January 1, 2003. Jeff Ooi started his blog "Screenshots" one day later on January 2, 2003. Both of them considered each other as sparring partners on the nascent blogging scene, often responding to each other's blog and cross-linking each other's postings.

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on July 23, 2013

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