High-risk news coverage: Reporting the crackdown in Myanmar | The Listening Post




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Summary: As military leaders ban independent media and arrest reporters, citizen journalists become an information lifeline in Myanmar. Contributors: Swe Win - Editor-in-chief, Myanmar Now Aye Chan Naing - Chief editor, Democratic Voice of Burma Wai Hnin Pwint Thon - The Burma Campaign UK Wai Wai Nu - Human rights activist; founder, Women's Peace Network On our radar In Russia, opposition figure Alexey Navalney is locked up in prison. Producer Tariq Nafi talks to Richard Gizbert about how the part-politician, part-journalist is still managing to get the word out. The 'anti-woke' challengers looking to disrupt UK broadcast media To the right? Britain braces for two new broadcasters who are out to rebalance TV news. Contributors: Robin Aitken - Former BBC reporter; author, Can We Trust the BBC? Martin Fletcher - Former foreign editor, The Times Stewart Purvis - Former chief executive and editor-in-chief, ITN; former content and standards partner, Ofcom Ash Sarkar -  Contributing editor, Novara Media - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/