With outgoing Frontier Myanmar editor-in-chief Ben Dunant and incoming editor-in-chief Thu Thu Aung. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, our two editors talk about Frontier and the Myanmar media landscape as Thu Thu takes the reigns from Ben, who is moving on after seven years at Frontier.
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Timecodes—
01m51s :: Introducing Thu Thu Aung
04m35s :: Ben being a foreign journalist before the coup
07m01s :: Thu Thu’s career
19m06s :: Ben as editor-in-chief in exile
28m08s :: Frontier’s 10th birthday
28m56s :: Close
Our guests—
Thu Thu Aung, Frontier’s editor-in-chief
Ben Dunant, Frontier’s outgoing editor-in-chief
New content on the Frontier website:
A ‘brotherly’ fight: Chin factions battle over Indian border
Fighting to the last: The TNLA digs in
Other Frontier reports mentioned in this episode:
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