Unit 4: Threats over Journalism Works & Journalists’ Livelihood 4.1. Discontinuing or Refreshing the News Media Due to revoking licenses and arresting journalists, numerous media outs discontinued their productions. It includes Yangon-based media agencies such as 7 Days Media’s daily newspaper, weekly periodical, online TV stream, online news platforms; Myanmar Times’s daily newspaper, weekly periodical, and online news production; and the Voice Daily Newspaper Weekly journals and online news. Moreover, there were also discontinued regional media outlets across Myanmar, including Magway Journal, Myitkyina Journal, Monywa Gazette News Journal, and its online news platforms, Kanbawza Times, The Magway Post online news, and the Tanintharyi Journal. The only privately-owned newspapers that continue to be published are San-daw-chain (the Standard Time) and Daily Eleven. Even those media agencies halted their printed circulations in earlier months after the coup. There are many media agencies whose licenses were revoked, continue to report. These include DVB, Mizzima, Myanmar Now, Khit-thit media, Tachileik News, the 74 media, Delta News Agency, Salween Times, and Border News Agency. Moreover, journalists organize nine new online media outlets. Decade-long experienced journalists gathered in those outlets after their former media agencies were closed or disbanded for diverse reasons. These news agencies organized by the journalists are listed below. Fig: New online news outlets co-founded by journalists after the coup Repeated Dark Age of News Media 24

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