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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…
Jacqui Park
Mar 16, 2021
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…
Jacqui Park
Feb 15, 2021
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…
Jacqui Park
Feb 14, 2021
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…
Christopher Warren
Nov 30, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Nov 19, 2020
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…
Laxmi Murthy
Nov 19, 2020
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…
Laxmi Murthy
Oct 28, 2020
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…
Christopher Warren
Oct 14, 2020
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…
Laxmi Murthy
Sep 21, 2020
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…
Christopher Warren
Sep 10, 2020
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
Jacqui Park
Aug 20, 2020
Building a Southasian Community, the Right Side Up
Building a Southasian Community, the Right Side Up
By Laxmi Murthy*
Laxmi Murthy
Aug 12, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Jul 27, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Jun 16, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Jun 1, 2020
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…
Laxmi Murthy
May 27, 2020
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…
Laura Warne
May 26, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
May 14, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
May 14, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Apr 27, 2020
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.
Jacqui Park
Apr 6, 2020
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
Jacqui Park
Mar 7, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Mar 7, 2020
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 —…
Christopher Warren
Feb 19, 2020
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…
Jacqui Park
Feb 5, 2020
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