![]() This period also saw a decrease in the popularity of state-controlled media. Still, the military’s attempts to control the media landscape did not stop a surge in independent outlets and content creation. Instead, the Myanmar junta became the world’s biggest jailer of journalists relative to population and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists listed Myanmar as the third-worst country worldwide for jailing journalists. It effectively dismantled the network of democratic media that had spread across the country over the previous decade. ![]() In the two years since, four journalists - all working in local media or as freelancers - have been killed and 145 arrested. Journalists were among the first to be hunted down after the military coup, led by General Min Aung Hlaing on February 1, 2021, along with opposition politicians, social workers, and activists. ![]() So I had to flee,” says a young woman print and TV reporter, now in Thailand. But since the coup, journalists can’t report freely and have to worry about their and their relatives’ safety. It’s an evolving ecosystem depending on an underground network, including citizen journalists, philanthropic support, experimentation in distribution and voices - and raw courage in the face of violent oppression by the Tatmadaw military junta. Image: ShutterstockĪs Myanmar’s bloody coup ticks over into its third year, local journalists continue to struggle to sustain and build independent media voices in support of democracy both inside the country and in the growing refugee diaspora. Global Investigative Journalism Network -Īfter the 2021 coup, protesters marched on the streets calling for freedom and for the release of Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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