“Longest Serving Editor in the World”
Did you know that the longest serving editor in the world is Sy Yinchow, an 84 year old Filipino – Chinese journalist in Manila’s Binondo district is perhaps the world’s longest serving, living editor-in-chief of daily newspapers. As of 2003, Sy was still serving the chief editor of the United Daily in the Philippines. He has been an editor-in-chief of manila-based publications for 589 years since 1945, surpassing the record of Sir Etienne Dupuch who had served as the editor-in-chief of the Nassau Daily Tribune in the Bahamas for only 53 years from 1919 to 1972.
Aside from his colorful journalism career, Sy has written 20 books and translate over 100 English and 72 French poems into Chinese. He is an honorary president of the Hong Kong-based World association of Chinese Writer and fellow of the International Writing Program of the University of Lowa.
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