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Journalism needs to understand what women want to talk about

Journalism needs to understand what women want to talk about

Asia’s feminist media understand diversity is the key to relevance and engagement. In this second part, Jacqui Park and Laxmi Murthy go…
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Jacqui Park
How honest feminism is reshaping news one startup at a time

How honest feminism is reshaping news one startup at a time

Across the Asia-Pacific, new media like Magdalene in Indonesia, SheThePeople.TV in India and Villainesse in New Zealand are speaking the…
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Jacqui Park
Ten takeaways from digital media’s year of the pandemic

Ten takeaways from digital media’s year of the pandemic

We’ve learnt a lot writing about news media startups in the Asia-Pacific in a pivot year, not least that digital news media is now more…
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Jacqui Park
Want to know what’s happening in Thailand? Ask the country’s new digital voices

Want to know what’s happening in Thailand? Ask the country’s new digital voices

In Thailand, new digital media are by-passing traditional timidity and government pressure to use the power of mobile and social media to…
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Christopher Warren
Khabar Lahariya: India’s rural watchdog with a feminist eye

Khabar Lahariya: India’s rural watchdog with a feminist eye

A news wave is breaking over rural India, as the all-women Khabar Lahariya fights disadvantage by leaning into hyper-local journalism…
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Jacqui Park
Seeking media PARI-ty in rural India

Seeking media PARI-ty in rural India

Two-thirds of India lives in rural communities. But you wouldn’t know that from the national media. The People’s Archive of Rural India…
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Laxmi Murthy
India’s Citizen Matters finds a future for local news by empowering the community

India’s Citizen Matters finds a future for local news by empowering the community

To build local news media for Indian cities the size of countries, Bengaluru’s Citizen Matters found a model that empowers both local…
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Laxmi Murthy
How India’s Scroll is building the journalistic hits factory

How India’s Scroll is building the journalistic hits factory

Quality is winning in digital news. But it’s a market that demands hit after hit, thinks South Asia’s digital news leader, Scroll.in…
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Christopher Warren
How Pakistan’s new media is breaking the old code of silence

How Pakistan’s new media is breaking the old code of silence

A dynamic new media portal in Pakistan is giving citizen journalists with diverse views what they want the most — space. Laxmi Murthy…
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Laxmi Murthy
How’s media reporting Covid-19? With a look back and a look forward

How’s media reporting Covid-19? With a look back and a look forward

As Covid-19 turbo-charges the disruption of the business model, it’s forcing news media in the Asia-Pacific to rethink what communities…
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Christopher Warren
Suddenly, news media events work at scale … and other lockdown upsides

Suddenly, news media events work at scale … and other lockdown upsides

As events move online, they’re becoming more about the journalism and less about the event itself. And that’s good writes Jacqui Park
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Jacqui Park
Building a Southasian Community, the Right Side Up

Building a Southasian Community, the Right Side Up

By Laxmi Murthy*
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Laxmi Murthy
How Indonesia’s Katadata found its blue ocean

How Indonesia’s Katadata found its blue ocean

Sometimes the media entrepreneurial path is clear. Other times, knowing the path you don’t want to take is a better guide to building a…
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Jacqui Park
The NewsMinute found an audience gap for its journalism mission in southern India

The NewsMinute found an audience gap for its journalism mission in southern India

The NewsMinute centres its southern Indian audience, minute by minute, in a news landscape dominated by the capital in Delhi, as Laxmi…
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Jacqui Park
Where to find the money for journalism after Covid

Where to find the money for journalism after Covid

The Story #12 is now out… with a few questions (and tentative answers) about revenue and sustainability plus a look at news deserts and…
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Jacqui Park
Suno India gets the country listening to shakers, in many languages

Suno India gets the country listening to shakers, in many languages

The corona virus has been on a rampage in media houses in India, but it has also enabled media start-ups to grab unexpected opportunities…
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Laxmi Murthy
Like to like: how the South China Morning Post meshes gender parity with audience growth

Like to like: how the South China Morning Post meshes gender parity with audience growth

Across global media, women’s voices are under-represented. A task force at SCMP worked to change that through understanding data and…
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Laura Warne
When news media start-ups mature: Lessons from 20 years of Malaysiakini

When news media start-ups mature: Lessons from 20 years of Malaysiakini

Asia’s original new media “start-up” Malaysiakini has turned 20. How’d they do it? The Story’s Jacqui Park spoke with Steven Gan…
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Jacqui Park
India’s The Wire answers to no boss but its audience — and that pays off

India’s The Wire answers to no boss but its audience — and that pays off

Five years in, The Wire is a key digital voice for journalism that holds power to account in South Asia, and their hard-headed hopefulness…
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Jacqui Park
The pandemic of media repression in Asia

The pandemic of media repression in Asia

When do measures justified by the public health emergency trample unnecessarily on the journalism we need to keep our communities informed…
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Jacqui Park
Your audience is paying attention. Are you ready?

Your audience is paying attention. Are you ready?

The Covid-19 shock is reshaping news media. Here’s five lessons to help media ride the change to pivot like its 2025.
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Jacqui Park

20 years on, why Crikey matters even more today than it did back then

Crikey editor-in-chief Peter Fray celebrates the 20th anniversary of Crikey
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Jacqui Park
A quick cycle through the history of news innovation to ask: Are we there yet?

A quick cycle through the history of news innovation to ask: Are we there yet?

The quarter century journey of news media innovation has not been linear. It’s spiralled forward through three overlapping cycles of…
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Jacqui Park
News Lens grew a millennial audience: now it’s harnessing the data

News Lens grew a millennial audience: now it’s harnessing the data

The Internet rewards scale. Digital start-ups in middle size societies need to think smart, meshing local strengths and global thinking —…
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Christopher Warren
What do we mean by innovation?

What do we mean by innovation?

News media is caught shuttling helter-skelter, attempting to juggle the impact of disruption while innovating to create a new media…
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Jacqui Park
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