| 词条 | Woon Tai Ho |
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|birth_date = 26 July 1958 |birth_place = Singapore |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |nationality = {{flagicon|Singapore}} Singaporean |alma_mater = National University of Singapore |image = |caption = |name = Woon Tai Ho |other_names = |movement = |organization = Channel NewsAsia, MediaCorp, National Gallery Singapore |monuments = |awards = |influences = |influenced = |footnotes = }} Woon Tai Ho ({{zh|s=云大篪|p=Yun Dachi}}) (born 26 July 1958), is a veteran media practitioner, TV producer, art collector and writer. He is the founder of Channel NewsAsia. Early lifeWoon grew up in Geylang, where he would organise 20-cent magic lantern shows for the neighbourhood with his twin brother, former MediaCorp Raintree Pictures CEO and Homerun Asia founder Daniel Yun.[1] His father, a chef, died when he was in secondary school, and his mother tried various ways to care for her two sons and two daughters, including running a food stall. Woon attended Telok Kurau Secondary School and Hwa Chong Junior College on scholarships, and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science in 1982. In his youth, Woon was an aspiring painter who sold a work when he was 16 years old. CareerWoon began his career as a producer in Singapore Broadcasting Corporation and Television Corporation of Singapore, producing programmes like Depth of Field: A Portrait of Chua Soo Bin (1989), A Changing Beat (1990) and War in the Gulf (1991). In 1999, he launched Channel NewsAsia. From 2000 to 2004, which Woon describes as "the most rewarding years of my life", he was the CEO of MediaCorp TV12, and from 2004 to 2009, the managing director of MediaCorp News.[2] In November 2008, Woon released a non-fiction book on the life and work of Cultural Medallion recipient Tan Swie Hian, To Paint a Smile. In 2009, he left MediaCorp and in June of the same year, founded media consultancy Green Orange. In February 2013, Woon released his debut novel Riot Green, set in the cut-throat world of South-east Asian art.[3] Riot Green is in the process of being adapted into a movie.[4] In August 2013, Woon was appointed as Director for Media and Marketing for the National Gallery Singapore.[5] In January 2015, Woon, in a shock move, quit the National Art Gallery.[6] Woon is currently a senior media consultant at communications consultancy RHT ARC Comms & Relations.[7] Woon has also contributed articles on art and travel to The Business Times and The Straits Times, and helped put together an exhibition of early Keith Haring drawings in 2012.[8] Personal lifeHe is an art collector, counting the works of Roland Ventura and Tan Swie Hian as part of his collection.[9] Works by Woon Tai Ho
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References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Anjum|first1=Zafar|title=Woon Tai Ho: My words are my paints|url=http://kitaab.org/2013/08/10/woon-tai-ho-my-words-are-my-paints/|website=Kitaab|accessdate=18 September 2014}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Woon Tai Ho}}2. ^{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Janice|title=Reluctant Switch|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20020130-2.2.26.1.aspx|accessdate=18 September 2014|agency=TODAY|publisher=MediaCorp|date=20 January 2002}} 3. ^{{cite news|last1=Nanda|first1=Akshita|title=Art imitates life for ex-TV chief|url=http://stcommunities.straitstimes.com/tv/2013/03/07/art-imitates-life-ex-tv-chief|accessdate=18 September 2014|agency=The Straits Times|publisher=Singapore Press Holdings|date=7 March 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Woon|first1=Tai Ho|url=https://www.facebook.com/woon.ho.5/posts/4938892966204?pnref=story|website=Facebook|accessdate=8 January 2015}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Former MediaCorp News CEO Woon Tai Ho appointed director for media and marketing at National Art Gallery|url=http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/former-mediacorp-news-ceo-woon-tai-ho-appointed-director-media-and-marketing|accessdate=18 September 2014|agency=TODAY|publisher=MediaCorp|date=2 August 2013}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=High-level staff changes at the National Gallery Singapore just months before it opens|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/visual-arts/story/high-level-staff-changes-the-national-gallery-singapore-just-months-it-o#xtor=CS1-10|accessdate=5 January 2015|agency=The Straits Times|publisher=Singapore Press Holdings|date=2 January 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=RHT Comms & Relations announces the addition of media veterans P.N. Balji and Woon Tai Ho as senior media consultants|url=http://www.rhtcomms.com/news/rht-comms-relations-announces-addition-media-veterans-pn-balji-and-woon-tai-ho-senior-media|website=RHT Comms & Relations|accessdate=25 February 2015}} 8. ^{{cite news|last1=Kolesnikov-Jessop|first1=Sonia|title=Keith Haring’s Early Drawings Get First Showing|url=http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/839391/keith-harings-early-drawings-get-first-showing|accessdate=18 September 2014|agency=Blouin ArtInfo|date=8 November 2012}} 9. ^{{cite web|last1=River|first1=Jordan|title=SILLAGE IN SINGAPORE – INTERVIEW WITH WOON TAI HO, AUTHOR OF RIOT GREEN|url=http://thefragrantman.com/2013/03/01/sillage-in-singapore-interview-with-woon-tai-ho-author-of-riot-green/|website=The Fragrant Man|accessdate=18 September 2014}} 8 : 1958 births|Living people|Singaporean people of Chinese descent|Singaporean people of Hainanese descent|Singaporean novelists|Mediacorp|Hwa Chong Junior College alumni|National University of Singapore alumni |
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