Lim Jim Koon 林任君校友

Lim Jim Koon studied in Catholic High from 1956 - 1967. Below is s short introduction of him.

Lim Jim Koon, the editor of Lianhe Zaobao, was born in Singapore in 1949, and graduated from Nanyang University with a BA (Hons) degree in Government and Public Administration in 1973. He joined the Chinese-language daily Sin Chew Jit Poh, the predecessor of Lianhe Zaobao, in 1977 and has risen through the ranks of translator, foreign editor, local news editor, executive editor and associate editor to become the editor of Zaobao in 1995.

Lianhe Zaobao is the flagship Chinese-language newspaper of Singapore Press Holdings and the foremost Southeast Asia Chinese daily with the widest reach and greatest influence among Chinese readers the world over. To date, Zaobao is the only foreign Chinese-language newspaper permitted to circulate in China . As the person responsible for the overall running and editing of Zaobao, Lim also oversees Zaobao.com, the Internet edition of Zaobao. Today, with a daily pageviews of 8-10 million, Zaobao.com is one of the most popular Chinese online news sites in the world and is particularly well-known in China.

Lim served as board members of several statutory boards, including Public Transport Council, National Arts Council, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Civil Service College and National Heritage Board. He is presently an advisor to the Center for World Chinese Media Studies, Peking University.

林任君简历

林任君是新加坡《联合早报》总编辑，1949年在新加坡出世。1973年毕业自南洋大学的政府与公共行政学系，获得文学士荣誉学位。1977年加入《联合早报》的前身《星洲日报》，担任国际组翻译员。1983年起，先后担任过《联合晚报》国际新闻副主任，《联合早报》国际新闻主任、本地新闻主任、执行编辑、副总编辑、代总编辑，在1995年1月出任早报总编辑。

《联合早报》目前是新加坡报业控股的旗舰华文报，也是在华人世界中影响力最大的东南亚华文报，并且是唯一获准在中国大陆公开发行的外国华文报章。林任君除了担任早报总编辑之外，也是其电子版《早报网》的主管。《早报网》深受全球华文读者的欢迎，在中国更拥有庞大的读者群，页览量每天800万－1000万。

除了主管报馆的职务外，林任君也曾受委担任新加坡的一些政府法定机构的董事或理事，包括：公共交通理事会，国家艺术理事会，市区重建局，民事服务学院和国家文物局。他目前是北京大学世界传媒研究中心的顾问。