Three groups representing Burma’s journalists say that they will submit a letter to the country’s Ministry of Information objecting to rules relating to a proposed Press Council that will be formed after the current censorship board is abolished. (more…)

Burma’s censorship board, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), has warned weekly news journals that they face disciplinary action if they publish reports of the recent resignation of Vice-president Tin Aung Myint Oo. (more…)

Hot News journal is mired in controversy after publishing a segment of an interview with Burma’s Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Myint Hlaing where he slated parliamentary representatives. (more…)

Press freedom has improved markedly in Burma over the course of the last year although the country still remains one of the world’s worst for media censorship, according to two new reports. (more…)

Burma’s first broadcast media law is being drafted and will likely be implemented by the end of this year. (more…)

Yangon — Myanmar’s journalists will take to Twitter and Facebook in their battle to beat press restrictions and deliver breaking news of Sunday’s by-elections that for many will be the biggest story of their careers. (more…)

For years, Myanmar’s former military regime regarded Aye Chan Naing as an enemy of the state, jailing 17 of his reporters and denouncing the exiled news organization he leads as a producer of “killer broadcasts” and a threat to national security. (more…)

In 2010, when foreign journalists were still largely exiled from Myanmar, two Australian filmmakers set out to document the country’s first general elections in two decades through the experiences of reporters working at the Myanmar Times, the country’s only local newspaper with foreign investment. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar—The media in Myanmar have gained new freedoms but also face a new threat in the form of lawsuits filed against them by the government. (more…)

Chiang Mai – The Ministry of Mines announced on Wednesday that it would sue the weekly news journal, The Voice, which has published a story saying that several Burmese government ministries were cited for transgressions in a Union auditor-general’s report. (more…)

The Internet was overflowing with leaked portions of the speech Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to deliver to Burmese citizens on Wednesday over state-run television. (more…)

Burma remains among the world’s worst countries for internet freedom, despite signs of an opening in its draconian media environment, a leading press freedom watchdog warns. (more…)

London — The BBC on Sunday made the first broadcast from its new London news centre, one of the world’s largest journalistic hubs, with a transmission by the Burmese section of the World Service. (more…)

Since coming into power, President Thein Sein has mentioned the importance of the fourth pillar in society and revealed that both he and his office follow media reports in and outside of Burma. (more…)

When Burmese exile Aung Zaw, founder of the newsmagazine the Irrawaddy, went home for the first time in 24 years, he expected attention. Since he fled to Thailand in 1988, the erstwhile student protester has become one of the most admired exiled journalists. What he didn’t expect, though, was adulation from immigration officials. “Inside the airport, a young immigration officer smiled as I gave him my passport,” he writes in an essay about his homecoming. “Meanwhile, the people waiting in line behind me grew impatient as they were made to wait until my friendly interrogation was finally over.” (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi will receive a business-like reception when she goes to the Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) studios to record an NLD campaign speech in March. (more…)

Yangon, Myanmar — It was a newspaper article that just months ago, Myanmar’s draconian state censors never would have approved.
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The co-founder and executive director of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) arrived in Rangoon on Monday for a five-day visit, the first time he has set foot on Burmese soil in more than two decades. (more…)

Aung Zaw spent much of the past two decades telling the world about human rights abuses and political intrigue in Myanmar. So when the well-known journalist and editor of the Thailand-based Irrawaddy news organization went back to his former home for the first time in more than 20 years this week, a lot of people were wondering what he’d find. (more…)

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Burma Media Association (BMA) in its concerns that Burma’s proposed new media law may not guarantee freedom of media as the government promised. (more…)