Dato’ Yushaimi Maulud Yahaya

Chief Operating Officer, NSTP

Yushaimi Maulud Yahaya is the Chief Operating Officer, NSTP. He was appointed to the position on April 1, 2019.

He has more than 26 years of experience in journalism, starting his career as a cub reporter with the Malay Mail after graduating from the New Straits Times Press Pre-Entry Training scheme in 1990.

In 2002, he was one of the two Malaysian journalists chosen for the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai/ Japanese Press Foundation fellowship programme. Upon his return, he was tasked with setting up four new bureaus for the Malay Mail, which was then part of the NSTP group, in Penang, Johor, Malacca and Perak, in 2003.

In 2004, he was promoted to Assistant News Editor. A year later, he was transferred to the New Straits Times as News Editor.

In 2006, he was promoted to Chief News Editor for The Malay Mail and Sunday Mail, before becoming Deputy Editor in 2007. He assumed a string of roles, including Acting Chief Operating Officer, Executive Editor (Production), Editor and subsequently Editor-in-Chief in 2010. He was also Group Editorial Advisor for the Redberry Group, which had bought The Malay Mail title, and was engaged as a consultant for a news portal revamp.

Yushaimi re-joined NST in November 2012 as Executive Editor (News), in charge of the general news, political, crime, probes, Streets, sports, Sunday Times and online desks; as well as the bureaus.

In March 2015, he was made Deputy Group Editor. As a writer, he was the recipient of the Malaysian Press Institute Best English News Report and Best Investigative Report awards in 2003 and 2014 respectively. He was appointed Group Editor of New Straits Times on March 1, 2017. Later on January 1, 2018, he was appointed to the position of NSTP’s Editor-in-Chief.

Yushaimi was also the Treasurer of New Straits Times Press National Union of Journalists Malaysia from 2001 to 2004, and the National Assistant Treasurer of the NUJ in 2004. He was also Deputy President of the National Press Club from 2011 to 2013.