SL Wong is at slwong{at}siewlynwrites.com
Siew Lyn Wong is a Malaysian freelance writer who has been creating content professionally for over 30 years. Her work appears in the print, broadcast and electronic media.
Five years ago, Siew Lyn returned to journalism fulltime. She co-founded and now runs Macaranga, Malaysia’s only journalism portal covering environmental and sustainable issues on Malaysia. Read about why she is doing this here. She also manages Macaranga‘s social media on X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
She is largely editing and training/mentoring journalists but writes stories from time to time. Check www.macaranga.org for her latest.
This year, she won a year-long grant for Macaranga from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network to conduct a training and mentorship project for multiple newsrooms on Covering Wildlife Trade and Crimes in Malaysia.
She also previously won grants from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network to produce a feature on seahorse conservation and three features on the impact of Covid-19 on respectively zoos, indigenous Orang Asli communities and ecotourism in Sabah. In 2020, she was co-grantee of the Pulitzer Centre Rainforest Journalism Grant for a 4-part series on deforestation in Peninsular Malaysia.
In addition, Siew Lyn appears in a monthly segment on BFM 89.9 Radio, where she and her Macaranga co-founder do a wrap-up of key environmental news.
Connect with her personally on @slwong_writes and Linkedin.
