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
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