Mazlan Nordin was an Editorial Department Consultant at New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd (2000 – September 2001) and was a columnist in Mingguan Malaysia, The Sun, New Straits Times, Asiaweek magazine and Guest Writer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
Mazlan Nordin began his journalism career as an assistant at Kedai Buku Yahaya Ariff & Sons in Kuala Kangsar.
The then Editor-in-Chief of Utusan Melayu, Tan Abdul Samad Ismail, had guided the ins and outs of writing to his reporters.
Samd Ismail assigned the young reporter to a story about riots surrounding the story of a young Dutch girl, named Maria Hertogh whose controversial adoption, Muslim upbringing, and return to her Catholic family and Catholic religion.
After four months at Utusan Melayu, Nordin left to pursue an offer to become a broadcast journalist at Voice of America in New York.
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