Dr. Janet Steele, will hold a talk at the Singapore Press Club on August 6, 2018. Dr. Steele’s talk will focus on the practice of journalism in Malaysia and Indonesia through the lens of Islam. Recently, Dr. Steele published her book Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim South-east Asia, which moves away from a western liberal approach to journalism, and looks at how Islamic values and principles influence journalism in Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and Indonesia.
