Rangoon media rally in support of imprisoned journalists
The protesting journalists also launched a signature campaign, calling for the repeal of Article 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law.
The protesting journalists also launched a signature campaign, calling for the repeal of Article 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law.
Interview Lead Story Media News
Tint San, the former CEO of the now defunct Unity Journal, speaks to DVB about media relations with Burma’s current government and the military.
Analysis Lead Story News Opinion
The controversy over a remark allegedly made by Aung San Suu Kyi says more about its source than it does about her.
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Burma’s media community is divided over whether to back the country’s government-sponsored Press Council or to push for further reforms.
Media watchdog groups urge the Burmese authorities to protect journalists after an attack on Arakanese journalist Min Min’s home.
Ethnic issues Lead Story Media News
The information department has requested the media stop using military rankings when referring to rebel leaders of armed ethnic groups.
Environment Lead Story News Video
Full time photographer, part time mountaineer Kyaw Thar is displaying photographs of a gruelling solo journey to the tops of northern Burma’s highest peaks.
Two editors from the Myanmar Herald news publication are found guilty of defamation and fined by a court in Naypyidaw.
Lead Story Media News Parliament
Reporters are to be readmitted to press gallery following a ban due to pictures of MPs sleeping through debates appearing on social media.
Ma Thandar, the reporter’s widow, says she attended this third hearing after being kept in the dark about prior court dates.
Education Lead Story News Protest
A Rangoon photography exhibition displaying pictures of this year’s education protests has been cut short.
Lead Story Media News Women's Issues
A dearth of women in positions of power within Burma’s media is preventing women from influencing content, and entrenching gender stereotypes.
Lead Story Media News Parliament
Freelance reporter who filed the story told court the quote had been editorialised.
Part two of this DVB Documentary follows Ma Thandar, on her journey to justice after the army killing of her husband, freelance journalist Par Gyi.
Three hundred people gathered in central Rangoon on Sunday to denounce the extrajudicial killing of Par Gyi.
Five staff members of the now defunct Bi-Mon Te Nay weekly news journal have been found guilty of sedition charges and sentenced to two years each in prison by Rangoon’s Pabedan Township Court.
Law Lead Story Magwe Media News
Magwe Regional Court reduces the sentences on five members of the now defunct Unity Journal from ten to seven years, following an appeal.
Analysis Contributor Lead Story News
Burma’s recent reforms have created an atmosphere of journalistic possibilities, but many foreign journalists fail to capitalise on access to areas previously restricted to engage in more extensive coverage of ethnic politics.
The recent jailing of Unity Weekly journalists and the threats of legal action against reporters is hindering the free press, the Interim Press Council said.
Burma’s first private journalism school in more than half a century opened its doors in Rangoon on Monday morning, poised to prepare aspiring reporters for the country’s turbulent media environment.
The Interim Press Council will formally question the Union Parliament about the Special Branch’s recent inquisition on financial details of private daily newspapers and weekly journals.
The Special Intelligence Department is investigating the finances of privately owned daily newspapers and weekly journals, media workers said.
DVB Debate Lead Story Media News Video
Panellists on DVB Debate discuss whether the government is trying to remain in control of the press by invoking current laws that actually stop journalists from doing their jobs.
DVB video journalist Zaw Pe, who was sentenced to one year in prison on 7 April, is included in a list of “100 information heroes” announced by international watchdog Reporters Without Borders ahead of World Press Freedom Day.
A series of public campaigns for press freedom and the release of jailed reporters are being prepared by media organisations and correspondents across Burma.
Lead Story News Special Report Video
The lawyer representing jailed DVB reporter Zaw Pe announced on Thursday that he will launch an appeal against the sentence to a higher court.
Lead Story News Politics Video
DVB journalist, Zaw Pe, who was sentenced to prison for one year has been transferred to Thayet prison in Magwe Division.
Lead Story News Politics Uncategorized
President Thein Sein proposed on Thursday that a commission be formed to begin tackling corruption in Burma.
PEN Myanmar, the newly established Burmese chapter of an international writer’s rights alliance, has publicly condemned the Burmese authorities and religious extremists for harassment and restrictions on literary gatherings.
More than 200 journalists and activists took to the streets in Rangoon on Tuesday morning to denounce the imprisonment of Eleven Daily reporter Naw Khine Khine Aye Cho, popularly known as Ma Khine.