Stories, carefully told
Ravi Kumar
Year 4 · Journalism · Singapore Reporter covering housing, transport and everyday money. I like stories with spreadsheets attached.
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The Rent Near Campus
Students say rent near campus has gone up, but nobody had numbers.
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Experience
Reporting Intern
City Desk Daily (online news outlet)
- Wrote 41 stories, mostly transport and consumer news.
- Broke a story on a hidden card-payment surcharge at bus kiosks.
- Learned to file a 300-word update in 20 minutes.
News Editor
Student newspaper
- Edit a team of 12 reporters.
- Run the fact-check desk.
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Notebook
Interview, route 9, seat 3.
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About
I got into journalism through a school newsletter and a teacher who kept asking 'how do you know?'. I still ask myself that before every story.
I like stories about everyday money and how cities work, and I like them better with data. I'm careful, sometimes slow, and I'd rather be right than first.
Outside the newsroom I play chess online, ride buses for fun (genuinely), and keep a spreadsheet of my own spending that I'm not proud of.
Education & community
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Year 4, Singapore.
Modules: News Reporting, Data Journalism, Feature Writing, Media Law, Investigative Methods.
News editor of the student paper. Student journalism award, best news story, 2025.
Kind words
Checked the bus fare in person before writing the sentence about it.
Senior editor, City Desk Daily
Skills
- Reporting
- Interviews
- Source verification
- Public records
- Fast filing
- Data
- Google Sheets
- Datawrapper
- Basic Python
- Scraping (careful)
- Editing
- Fact-checking
- Headlines
- Style guides
Recent updates
14 Sep 2026
3 Sep 2026
15 Jan 2026
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