Jeremy Au Yong

Jeremy oversees newsroom strategy in The Straits Times, which includes working on planning,
innovation as well as workflow improvement across the different parts of the publication. He has
been a journalist for 20 years and has worked across various sections of the newsroom. His
previous roles include foreign editor, lifestyle editor, mobile editor and US bureau chief.
Jeremy was appointed the US bureau chief in November 2013 after nine years working in
various desks in The Straits Times. He had spent the previous six years at the political desk. As
political correspondent and subsequently assistant political editor, he covered general elections
in Singapore and Malaysia and wrote features on topics like terrorism, technology, immigration
and diplomacy. He is part of the team that set up the politics and current affairs website
Singapolitics.sg. He was named the Singapore Press Holdings EMND Young Journalist of the
Year in 2005.
Jeremy has a bachelor’s in computer engineering from the University of New South Wales in
Sydney and a master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.