Danson Cheong
Deputy Head, Audience Lab (New Audience)
Danson is deputy head of The Straits Times’ Audience Lab, where he drives ST’s engagement with new audiences and oversees its podcasts. When he was still in the field, he reported from various countries in South-east Asia and spent five years in Beijing (2018 to 2023) as a foreign correspondent. He has won national and regional awards for his work.
Latest articles
To all the pickleball players out there: Patience, the game’s going your way
Why does the death of my fiddle-leaf fig hurt?
Moves by heavyweights, multi-cornered fights: 5 highlights from Nomination Day
What I have learnt after a decade in news
S’pore must work harder to find like-minded partners in less hospitable world: PM Wong
New property cooling measure to tighten HDB loan limits; larger grants for lower-income flat buyers
As records tumbled at the Paris Olympics, I watched with joy and trepidation
Finding common ground by talking to one another
Sorry, but we’re Chinese Singaporeans – not your compatriots
Why it’s not easy to get S'pore’s young voters onside
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