Our Team

Suzanne is a skilled interviewer, adept at getting to the core of an issue through easy conversations with her guests. As the former host of Channel NewsAsia’s Primetime Morning and AM Live, she has anchored many major breaking news stories and interviewed personalities as diverse as world leaders, including Tony Blair, John Howard, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, to international artistes like David Foster, Ian Mckellen, Alicia Keys, Jackie Chan and football legend Pele. Suzanne has received numerous News Excellence awards for her reports over the years. They include her coverage on the IMF/World Bank meeting in 2006 and the 13th ASEAN Summit in 2007.  Suzanne is an experienced speaker and moderator, having chaired panels at the World Knowledge Forum and Global Media Forum and other international symposiums. She has extensive experience as Master of Ceremony of various major events for banks, embassies and multinationals such as Standard Chartered, Samsung, LG, TNT, Changi SATS among many others and has hosted events from award ceremonies to business launches. Suzanne also does media training for various organizations such as Khattar Wong & Partners, LG Electronics and Specialist Dental Group to name a few. Suzanne also relishes opportunities to teach and train young professionals. She trained a group of selected student journalists to represent Singapore as McDonald’s Champion Kids at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and sits on a panel of judges for Panasonic’s KWN News Competition, a global hands-on news education program for primary and secondary school children. 

Hwee spent 16 years in TV journalism, mainly reporting on politics and also developing and editing news stories. She was a MediaCorp scholar who was always called upon to cover top stories involving key leaders of the Singapore Cabinet, including the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Her forte is in writing clearly and pointedly to get your message across. In 2011, during the Singapore Presidential Elections, Hwee was Media Consultant to Dr Tan Cheng Bock’s presidential campaign. She worked with him on speeches and equipped him with skills to handle camera interviews. Over the years, she’s developed a keen eye for assessing writing, and has edited fiction and non-fiction, speeches and corporate writing. Writers have been sending their first draft copies and manuscripts to Hwee for her insights into how to better improve their writing. These include former banker Yip Woon Lye, who wrote a book on property and author of young adult fiction, Rajdeep Paulus.  She is currently writing her own book on the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew targeted at children. Hwee is the go-to person if you want to learn how to write a good press release, pitched with the right news angle. After all, she spent years sifting through hundreds of press releases every day as a news editor. As assignments editor, Hwee controlled what the news organization would send its reporters to. From there, she honed her expertise at knowing what works as a good media pitch and what does not. Hwee is currently part of a Media Consultant team for the Singapore Judo Federation’s Judo Contingent for SEA Games 2015.