Mizzima founder and editor-in-chief Soe Myint looks back into the challenges they faced in the past 23 years and the impact of the February 2021 coup on their role as journalists working for an ...

Under international legal standards, journalists should be allowed to have the freedom to do their work. Yet the changes brought in by the Myanmar junta directly target media that the regime considers ...

Ever since Myanmar’s military seized control in a coup, the team at Mizzima News has been focused on how to survive while producing quality journalism. The junta has revoked licenses for more than a ...

A favourite debate topic in Indian schools used to be “the pen is mightier than the sword”. Well, the might of the US-backed Israeli devastation of Gaza was streamed live on television and phone ...

On August 24, Prasar Bharati signed an agreement to share content with the Burmese media group Mizzima. It is the first such deal India’s public broadcaster has made with a private media company – and ...

Two decades ago, anyone in Myanmar caught in possession of a news journal produced by the ''exile media'' could be charged with distributing unlawful literature and face 20 years in jail. But on the ...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”116543″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]A popular poet and comedian, and a women’s rights campaigner who co-founded Myanmar’s independent ...

Myanmar has loosened many shackles on its media since the military junta gave up power in 2012 in favor of a nominally-civilian government. Private media are no longer subject to overt state ...