{"id":551,"date":"2018-02-17T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burmaconference.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2018-02-17T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:00:52","slug":"myanmar-media-landscape-its-future-potentiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Media Landscape &#038; it&#8217;s Future Potentiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Myanmar\u2019s new government promised media reform when it took power, but it hasn\u2019t happened. The government, the military, or joint ventures with them dominate Burmese media. Direct ownership, regulations, and anti-defamation provisions and other restrictive laws are used to counter the role of an independent press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">1. Myanmar Media Reform: Past, Present and Future &#8211; Toe Zaw Latt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvb.no\/\">Democratic Voice of Burma<\/a> (DVB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2. A Landscape Transformed: Ethnic Media in Peace Building &#8211; Khin Maung Shwe, Media Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhi360.org\/projects\/civil-society-and-media-project\">FHI360<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">3. The Situation of Myanmar Media Behind the Curtain of \u201cLegal Reform\u201d &#8211; Yin Yadanar Thein, Program Manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/freeexpressionmyanmar.org\">Free Expression Myanmar<\/a> (FEM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">4. Laws Curtailing Freedom of Expression Online &#8211; Htaike Htaike Aung, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myanmarido.org\/\">Myanmar ICT for Development Organization<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Coordinator: Ohnmar Nyunt; Chair: Gayathry Venkiteswaran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar\u2019s new government promised media reform when it took power, but it hasn\u2019t happened. The government, the military, or joint ventures with them dominate Burmese media. Direct ownership, regulations, and anti-defamation provisions and other restrictive laws are used to counter the role of an independent press. 1. Myanmar Media Reform: Past, Present and Future &#8211; Toe Zaw Latt, Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) 2. A Landscape Transformed: Ethnic Media in Peace Building &#8211; Khin Maung Shwe, Media Director, FHI360 3. The Situation of Myanmar Media Behind the Curtain of \u201cLegal Reform\u201d &#8211; Yin Yadanar Thein, Program Manager, Free Expression Myanmar&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,29,28,16,30],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-panels","tag-government","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-myanmar","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2icbms.burmaconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}