The RIS is also messed up (a little differently), e.g.
`N1 - Tom Allard, Lindsay Murdoch, David Wroe`
or
`N1 - Haris Hussain; Farrah Naz Karim; Zulita Mustafa; Syed Umar Ariff; Arman Ahmad; Rozanna Latiff; Alang Bendahara; Akil Yunus; Hariz Mohd;`
or
`N1 - Kristin Shorten and Cindy Wockner`
or
`N1 - JON OSTROWER, WASHINGTON`
Actually, there are only in rare cases authors to newspaper articles. And if there are author(s), I would guess we can catch the majority from them correct.

Yes, code is mostly copied and paste form previous translators.