Advocacy journalism pays off for R.AGE


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

The Star's Chief Content Officer Esther Ng with the R.AGE team after the won the Kajai award at the Malam Wartawan Malaysia 2018

PETALING JAYA: Advocacy journalism has paid off for The Star's youth news and lifestyle platform R.AGE, which has turned it into a profitable journalistic model.

R.AGE started in 2015 as a class newspaper pullout, but editor Ian Yee had a vision to transform it into "hardcore" investigative documentaries.

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