"Myanmar’s media, which was for so long held up as an important symbol of the country’s liberalisation, is facing a sink-or-swim moment." https://t.co/ovXDV4lJ4B
“People were crossing the border like they were going to a festival,” said Nai Win, who works in the Sangkhlaburi area and recently encountered migrants walking along jungle tracks into Thailand. https://t.co/vsZIil8ZMQ
We're not betting on a print revival to ensure Frontier’s survival, but we believe print still has an important place in the media landscape.https://t.co/k8CnjGmEjt
The new issue — featuring a death penalty debate, the swelling ranks of Myanmar's abandoned babies, the environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and more — is back in print on Thursday, but members can read it online now. Not a member? Sing up here: https://t.co/w9c7BVq3Cohttps://t.co/JPCcHkVUqy
Today we published our annual 'Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions' report, with many insights on the challenges facing journalism in 2021.
Explore it here https://t.co/z3w7DEG5AO
From Myanmar, @swe_sonny from @FrontierMM, who recounted how Covid restrictions on movement were applied to independent journalists, but not to reporters working for state media: https://t.co/ZdEifkxa76 6/9
Happening now: To help listeners in Myanmar embrace podcast as a new medium, @swe_sonny described it as "digital radio". His show is now reaching millions of listeners https://t.co/hL3SW7Q2jP
@faljournalism at #nwsrewired fascinating to hear
@swe_sonny on rise of podcasting on human rights at Myanmar's The Frontier, winning an audience away from Facebook + on missing spark of face-to-face with journalists, sources, people generally in Covid-19 times - we hear you !
This week on Doh Athan, Frontier's Burmese-language podcast, residents of Dawei fear their beach may be being snapped up by private investors.
https://t.co/KPj69f8GaI
In this week's edition of Election Insider, I look at what lay behind the collapse of Myanmar’s primary opposition force, the Union Solidarity and Development Party.
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The election has shifted the balance of power between parties in Shan State. But with a hung state assembly, it will be a rare site of horse-trading in a political system otherwise defined by clear winners and losers.
@FrontierMM takes a closer look: https://t.co/Tu05VFfRGn