The Usual Place Podcast
GE2025: Trailing candidates, squeezing into rallies - covering the campaign as young journalists
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The Usual Place looks back at the election hustings.
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My guests today are two journalists and a video journalist at The Straits Times, who have been tracking the pre-election buzz for weeks.
Beyond witnessing the election unfold up close through their work, Wong Yang and Christie Chiu, along with their video colleague Isabelle Kumar, are also experiencing it from a personal angle – as first-time voters.
What have their own Gen Z friends been saying to them about similar experiences that helped shape their approach to content ideas?
They also tell me how they followed some candidates for an entire day and faced challenges while filming.
Highlights (click/tap above):
3:21 Christie and Yang’s response to being labelled the ‘Gen Z version’ of TV presenters Glenda Chong and Steven Chia
7:48 Did being reporters help them learn anything for themselves as young first-time voters?
8:49 Their rally experiences
13:45 “They are also human” - Isabelle on her observations while filming candidates like PAP’s Foo Cexiang and WP’s Alexis Dang
19:09 “Be kind” to one another - the trio’s key personal takeaways from GE2025
Today’s shirt worn by Natasha was sponsored by Good Addition.
It’s a wrap! Thanks for tuning in daily during the GE2025 hustings.
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Host: Natasha Zachariah ( natashaz@sph.com.sg
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ST Podcast producers: Teo Tong Kai & Eden Soh
Shorts edited by: ST Video
Executive producers: Ernest Luis, Danson Cheong and Lynda Hong
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