Who We Are

The Short Street room, the people and how the morning handover runs.

We sit on Short Street because the Selegie corridor deserves a desk that watches it in daylight — not a wire service that repackages overnight alerts. The room on the third floor looks onto the crossing. The table is wide enough for proofs, laptops and the pencil tray that marks a long stack session.

Short Street in the morning is a corridor of kopitiams opening, buses heading north, and residents collecting mail before work. Selegie light through the high window is the reason captions improve when you can see what the camera saw.

A day runs from 07:30: first wave, noon file, picture set, then close. Section editors rotate beats weekly so no reporter owns a story alone. The picture rail sits by the window because morning light is part of the checking method.

We are an independent editorial company. Everything on this site describes our coverage areas, editorial methods, and desk operations. News judgement depends on sources, timing, and events outside any desk's control, so nothing here should be read as a promise of a particular story, ranking, audience outcome, or commercial result.

The handover

Morning and afternoon shifts meet at 12:45 for a ten-minute handover: holds, picture assignments, and mail flagged for reply. The section editor on duty signs the stack before the next wave — not as ceremony, but so responsibility is visible.

We describe our methods on this site because readers along Short Street deserve to know how filing works. Outcomes depend on sources, timing, and events no desk controls; nothing here promises a particular story or ranking.