The new Malay Male
Via The Malay Mail (Feb 17, Pg 2):
Magistrate-turned-journalist Mohd Zulkifli Abdul Jalil is the new Malay Mil editor and its chief operating officer.M. Zulkifli, as he is is popularly known, assumed the position a few days ago.
The new Malay Male (picture above) has some five years of experience in magazine editing and zilt in mainstream journalism.
This is the Feb 14 online story which never made to the Malay Mail pages: Rocky leaves NSTP after 21 years.
THE MALAY MAIL KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14
Rocky leaves NSTP after 21 years
Yesterday marked the last day in office for The Malay Mail and Sunday Mail executive editor Ahirudin Attan.
Ahirudin, fondly known as Rocky among friends and colleagues, leaves after almost 21 years in the New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd group.
He joined the group as a journalist with the Business Times in 1985 after graduating from Institut Teknologi Mara (now Universiti Teknologi Mara).
He was the group’s London correspondent in 1992 and a year later, he furthered his studies by taking up an Advance Journalism course in Cardiff.
He was appointed editor of the Business Times in 1997 and remained in the position until he was appointed executive editor of The Malay Mail in August, 2001.
During his tenure, The Mail Mail undertook its regional offensive in July 2003 by launching editions in Penang, Johor Baru, Malacca and Ipoh.
This initiative resulted in an increase in the paper’s circulation from around 30,000 to about 55,000 daily, making The Malay Mail the fastest growing English daily in Malaysia in 2003, according to AC Nielsen.
Ahirudin will be taking up a position as contributing editor with the Malaysian Business which is part of Berita Publishing Sdn Bhd headed by former New Straits Times group editor-in-chief Datuk A. Kadir Jasin.
Ahirudin said he will remain the president of the National Press Club, a position he has held since 2003.
"My term will only end in March 2007," he said.
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