Doing news work in Myanmar comes with high risk to life and safety, in a profession with uncertain prospects for the future. Since 2021 the coup, the junta has been using legal persecution as a weapon against journalism and journalists.

An overwhelming majority of journalists from Myanmar say they feel quite vulnerable to attacks and threats in the country’s often-toxic online spaces, going by insights from a survey done by Reporting ASEAN. The use of safer digital tools, however, is not widespread among news professionals.

It is risky times for any independent journalist in Myanmar, but Ma Khine is among those who stay with their craft despite the risks to life and security, and the inadequate income from the news profession these days.

31 October 2022 | Updated 23 December 2022 | REPORTING ASEAN Read/download the eBook here in English and here in Khmer! ‘Net-zero emissions’, ‘extreme weather events’, ‘noise pollution’ and ‘organic’ – these phrases have weaved their way into the news we consume and daily conversations we have. Our everyday language now reflects our concerns as […]

Funny but serious is how cartoons have been in the political conversations in the Philippines, which votes for a new president in May. Visual artist Kapitan Tambay talks to Reporting ASEAN about visual storytelling.

If you haven’t yet noticed, the conversations around gender in news and public spaces have been changing – in ways that were hard to imagine even a few years ago. Drawing from news realities, this 64-page book explains how gender-informed storytelling is an investment in spotting and producing ing nuanced, engaging news reports.

အဝေးရောက်ဘဝတွင် နေထိုင်လုပ်ကိုင်ရခြင်းသည် မြန်မာသတင်းသမားများအတွက် ပိုမိုလုံခြုံမှု ရှိကောင်း ရှိနိုင်သည်။ သို့သော် သူတို့သည် အခက်အခဲကြုံနေရသော ယခုအလုပ်အကိုင်ထံမှ စားဝတ်နေရေး လှည့်ကြည့်စရာမလိုသော အနေအထားတစ်ရပ် (ဘဝ) ကို ရရှိနိုင်ပါ့မည်လားဟု စိုးရိမ်နေကြသည်ဟု Reporting ASEAN က ကောက်ယူသည့် စစ်တမ်းအဖြေက ဆိုသည်။

Living and working in exile may be safer for Myanmar’s journalists, but they are worried about being able to making a decent living (and life) from their embattled profession, insights from a Reporting ASEAN survey show.

We all know that sexual harassment exists in news work, but the insights offered by this WAN-IFRA survey tell us more about how it is viewed, understood and addressed (or not so).

၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ သတင်းသမားများစွာတို့သည် တခြား အလုပ်အကိုင်တခုခုကို ပြောင်းလဲလုပ်ကိုင်ခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် ဘေးကင်းဒေသများသို့ တိမ်းရှောင် ထွက်ပြေးခြင်းများ ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ကြရသည်။ နေမြဲနေခဲ့ကြသူများမှာလည်း မပြတ်တမ်း စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်နေကြရသည်။ သို့သော်လည်း အမှောင်ခေတ်အတွင်းမှာပင် မြန်မာသတင်းသမားများသည် သတင်းမီဒီယာလောက ပြန်လည်ပွင့်လင်းလာမည့်နောင်တချိန်ကို ရည်သန်၍စူးစိုက်ထားကြသည်။

ចាប់តាំងពីរដ្ឋប្រហារខែកុម្ភៈ ឆ្នាំ២០២១មក អ្នកកាសែតជាច្រើននៅក្នុងប្រទេសមីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា ត្រូវផ្លាស់ប្តូរអាជីពទៅធ្វើការផ្សេង ឬភៀសខ្លួនទៅកាន់តំបន់ដែលមានសុវត្ថិភាពជាង ខណៈពេលដែលអ្នកនៅបន្តធ្វើការងារនេះ កំពុងរស់នៅដោយការព្រួយបារម្ភឥតឈប់ឈរ។ ប៉ុន្តែនៅក្នុងភាពអន្ធកាល អ្នកសារព័ត៌មានផ្តោតចក្ខុ ប្រមើលទៅពេលវេលាល្អប្រសើរសម្រាប់វិជ្ជាជីវៈរបស់ពួកគេ នៅថ្ងៃណាមួយ។

นับตั้งแต่รัฐประหารเมื่อเดือนกุมภาพันธ์ 2021 นักข่าวหลายคนในเมียนมาจำต้องเปลี่ยนงานหรือไม่ก็หนีไปหลบภัยไกลบ้าน ส่วนคนที่ยังเหนียวแน่นกับงานข่าว ก็ต้องคอยระแวดระวังอยู่ตลอด แต่ถึงแม้จะอยู่ในสภาวะมืดมนเช่นนี้ หลายคนก็ยังเฝ้ารอวันเวลาที่ดีกว่าสำหรับอาชีพนักข่าวสื่อมวลชนให้มาถึงสักวัน

Since the February 2021 coup, many journalists have had to change to other work or flee to safer areas, while those who stick with news live in constant worry. But in the darkness, journalists are keeping their eyes focused on better times for their profession – someday.

Click on our deck of 10 slides to view highlights from Reporting ASEAN’s 2021 survey, which sought journalists’ insights on how they see sustainability as a news topic as well as how their newsrooms discussed it at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Sustainability’ has become something of a mantra these days. But how do we break down this big word – used by governments, companies, civil society, development experts 0 into news stories? Watch this recording of Reporting ASEAN’s webinar.

Podcast កំពុង​មាន​ការ​ពេញនិយម​យ៉ាងខ្លាំងក្នុង​ចំណោម​យុវជន ដោយ​ភ្ជាប់​ពួកគេ​ទៅនឹង​ប្រធានបទ​ជា​ច្រើន​ដូចជា​ ព្រឹត្តិការណ៍​បច្ចុប្បន្ន​ សកម្មភាព​ឆ្លើយតប​នឹង​ការប្រែប្រួល​អាកាសធាតុ រហូត​ដល់​សុខភាព​ផ្លូវ​ចិត្ត​ និង​ការតស៊ូ​ជាដើម។

Podcasts are picking up, connecting with younger audiences on topics ranging from current affairs, climate action to mental health and resilience.

Enthusiasm and a sense of public duty, lack of safety, worries about income and professional work arrangements. All of these mix in how life has been since the February coup in Myanmar, a young local  journalist recounts in this personal account.

A fun way of getting a serious message across is what the online game ‘ChoicesIMake’, developed by a Malaysian group on news and information, literacy, aims for. Ready?

This set of infographics describes how Southeast Asians’ digital lives are: how connected they are, how long they are online, theirs views on misinformation, their age profiles, and more.