Jom 2024 Annual Issue No.2

Paperback, 100 pages

Best long-form writing on Singapore

Jom was founded to inform and delight with slow journalism, grounded in humility and sensitivity, and guided by the never-ending quest for truth.

Slow journalism is a concept that has emerged as a rebuke to a new media landscape that often incentivises speed over quality. Many new outfits, in Singapore and elsewhere, feel a constant pressure to churn out content so as to engage as many eyeballs as possible (which in turn makes them more attractive to advertising dollars). In such an environment, journalists feel forced to respond to every issue immediately, even to the point of manufacturing outrage. Jom is part of the small resistance against these market forces.

Contents
• Taylor Swift and the Teenage Experience | Jean Hew
• Recorded Past: How EMI Made the Best Malay Music | Faris Joraimi & Khir Johari
• Triaging the Singapore Education System: The Primary Care of "Secondary: The Musical" | Corrie Tan
• Crossword Puzzle | Julian Lim
• Activism is a verb: interviews with pro-Palestinian organisers | Mariyam Haider
• On Solidarity: A Review of a Dinner Party | Kristian-Marc James Paul
• Singapore is Not AI: Technonature and Agentic Ecologies | Charmaine Poh
• The Hunger Games: Trouble in Food Paradise? | Tsen-Waye Tay 
• Winged Woes: A Historical Look at Birds in Singapore | Neo Xiaoyun & Jay Wong 
• Farmers Today: A Jaunt Through City Sprouts | Sudhir Vadaketh
• A Satirical Series | The Mockingbird