Oscar Holland

Oscar Holland Producer, CNN Style Oscar Holland is a Producer for CNN Style based in Singapore. Latest Oscar Holland is a Producer for CNN Style based in Singapore. He is responsible for writing and editing news and features across the CNN Style platform. He specializes in architecture, art and visual culture, as well as covering fashion, design, and photography for the network. Prior to joining CNN, Holland worked as a freelance journalist and magazine editor in mainland China, where he lived for five years. He wrote features for a variety of media including Vice and The Independent, as well as working as a freelance architecture critic for design industry publications. He also worked in a freelance capacity for CNN, filing stories from Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tokyo and Phnom Penh, before taking a full-time role at the network’s Hong Kong bureau in 2019. He served as Acting Asia Editor in 2021, taking responsibility for the platform’s daily coverage and editorial priorities in the region, and relocated to Singapore the following year. Holland has interviewed high-profile figures across the arts including KAWS and Takashi Murakami, as well as Pritzker-prize winning architect Balkrishna Doshi and Cambodian culture minister Phoeurng Sackona. His in-depth feature on the evolution of architecture in modern China was part of a CNN Style series, “Culture in the Xi Era,” that won the Society of Publishers in Asia 2020 Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture Reporting. Holland holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government and History from the London School of Economics. He was named runner-up in the university’s prestigious Bernard Levin Award for student journalism.

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • The article exaggerates the importance of guests such as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump by presenting them as high-profile international figures even though they may not be well known in India or related to Anant Ambani's wedding.
  • The article presents a lavish pre-wedding party when it is unclear if there will ever be an actual wedding.
  • The article presents a lavish pre-wedding party when there are no indications that Rihanna has any intention of marrying anyone.

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • Japan has more than 270 buildings higher than 150 meters (492 feet), the fifth most in the world, according to data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
  • The article discusses how Japanese officials have sought to learn from every major quake the country has faced with researchers conducting detailed surveys and updating building regulations accordingly.
  • The article mentions that modern buildings appeared to do very well in past earthquakes
  • The author states that flexibility is key to survival for buildings during an earthquake

Contradictions

100%

Examples:

  • Japan has more than 270 buildings higher than 150 meters (492 feet), the fifth most in the world, according to data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
  • The article discusses how Japanese officials have sought to learn from every major quake the country has faced with researchers conducting detailed surveys and updating building regulations accordingly.
  • The article mentions that modern buildings appeared to do very well in past earthquakes
  • The author states that flexibility is key to survival for buildings during an earthquake

Deceptions

50%

Examples:

  • The author states that Japan has been building structures with flexibility and resilience for centuries but fails to provide any examples or evidence to support this claim.

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Powerful Earthquake Causes Widespread Destruction on Japan's Noto Peninsula

Powerful Earthquake Causes Widespread Destruction on Japan's Noto Peninsula

Broke On: Saturday, 06 January 2024
    A powerful earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula on January 15, 2024. The quake caused widespread destruction and landslides in the region, with buildings swept away by landslides in Wajima and other areas of the peninsula. New coastline has emerged due to uplift caused by the earthquake.