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Two UKM graduates helmed media organisations

Two Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia graduates have been appointed to senior positions in the media organisations.
Datuk Ibrahim Yahaya, who obtained his masters degree in communication management from the School of Media and Communication Studies, was appointed the Director General of Broadcasting, atthe Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture from March 16, 2009.
While Mior Kamarulbaid bin Kamarul Shahid who obtained a similar masters degree was appointed the Group Editor of Berita Harian from July 7, 2009.
Datuk Ibrahim previously worked as a journalist withv Berita Harian, editor of TV3, Berita Publishing, media consultant of RM and advisor to the Minister of Information. Datuk Ibrahim, popularly known as Tiger among friends is a blogger at duniatiger.blogspot.com.
Similarly, Mior Kamarulbaid served in Berita Harian as a journalist before being appointed as its Deputy Group Editor. After leaving Berita Harian he worked with TVUmno and was an editor with Millejium Publications.
Mior was among several people involved in the restructuring of editorial positions in NSTP after Datuk Johan Jaaffar was appointed the Executive Chairman of Media Prima and the rejoining of Dato' Ahmad Talib as Executive Director, News and Editorial Operations. Dato' Ahmad is also a blogger at pahitmanis.blogspot.com
Mustafa Omar, who is now the Group Editor of Harian Metro/Metro Ahad, was a master student in the communication management programme but withdrew from the programme because of work commitment.
Datuk Ibrahim Yahaya is the first outsider to be appointed to the post. Previously, the position was filled by government servants.
Apart from the two, another UKM graduate is Dato' Wong Chun Wai who graduated in Social Science and History. He is now the Group Chied Editor of the Star Publications. Dato' Wong is also a blogger at chunwai08.blogspot.com.
Several UKM graduates in Communication are holding positions in broadcasting and print media, including at TV3 (Azmi Atan, Rosli Abu Hassan, Phang Chinn Fei, Junaidi Suboh), NTV7 (Abdul Ghani Ahmad) Utusan Malaysia (Zulkifli Jalil, Abdul Razak Din), RTM (Sabri Mansor), and Mstar (Dr G Manimaran). There are many more which escaped memory when writing this piece.

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