We now start each day looking at data

It was March 23, 2015, just after 4am. I was woken up by a call from my editor, who said: 'He has passed; let's get down to work.

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Ms Ong Hwee Hwee joined The Straits Times in 1999 as a translator. Over the years, she took on editing roles at the foreign and Singapore desks, as well as an overseas posting as the paper's Taiwan correspondent from 2005 to 2008.

In 2014, she made the leap from print to digital journalism, at a time when the media industry was undergoing a transformation from print to online. She was the digital editor from 2016 to 2023, and also led The Straits Times' audience growth strategy.

In this capacity, Ms Ong was involved in the online coverage of major news events, from the death of Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in 2015, to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Singapore's general elections.

Ms Ong, 49, now oversees the visualisation cluster, comprising the digital graphics, video, photo and art desks, as well as the product and tech teams who build and develop The Straits Times' website and apps.