KUALA LUMPUR: Media Prima Bhd (MPB) has announced the appointment of Mustapha Kamil Mohd Janor as Group Editor of the New Straits Times (NST) and Yushaimi Maulud Yahaya as the deputy group editor of the newspaper.
MPB Group Managing Director Datuk Seri Amrin Awaluddin said the new appointments will help further raise standards of NST’s print and digital products and strengthen its position as a paper of record with a more compelling content in the face of the challenging media environment.
Concurrently, these appointments reflect MPB’s strong succession plan enabling smooth handover of responsibilities and operations, while consolidating MPB’s position as the largest integrated media group in Malaysia, he said in a statement released this evening.
As group editor, Mustapha, 54, will manage the overall operations of NST while spearheading the revamp of the country’s oldest English daily with 170 years of history.
Mustapha was NST’s managing editor Business/Lifestyle, overseeing both the Business Times and the Life and Times pull-outs.
A veteran journalist with 26 years of experience, Mustapha joined the NST in 1989 as a journalist, before being promoted as Associate Editor BT in 2002. He had also served as NST correspondent based in New York from 1999 to 2002.
Mustapha will report to NSTP Group Managing Editor Datuk Abdul Jalil Hamid.
Yushaimi, 47, joined the NST in 1989. He was editor-in-chief of Malay Mail before being appointed as NST executive editor (news) in 2012.
He succeeds Abdul Rashid Yusof who has left the company.