Freelance editor. Former hack with The Cambodia Daily and Al Jazeera English.
Joined December 2011
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Journalist Mech Dara has been released on bail after almost a month in detention for incitement following social media posts deemed to be provocative.
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The Cambodian regime’s catch-all, crush-all law: “Criminal incitement” for your tweets. They are throwing the book at the brave Mech Dara.
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Really sad to see another giant of independent media in Southeast Asia shut down.
It is with a heavy heart that today we announce the suspension of editorial operations at Southeast Asia Globe, taking effect at the end of September. Please take a moment to read the message from our team and how we came to this decision.
southeastasiaglobe.com/goodb…
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A small town in Kansas has become a battleground over the First Amendment, after the local police force and county sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the Marion County Record, a family-owned paper with a circulation of about 4,000. nyti.ms/3s5wcZz
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As many as 43,000 people are estimated to have died in Somalia last year as a result of the east African nation’s worst drought in more than four decades. And 34,200 more could die in the first half of this year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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🔌 Sign up to my free newsletter Proximities. The West unjustifiably dominates the so-called "international" news agenda. So every day I summarize three non-Western stories. It's digestible in two mins and will break you out of your media bubble. 🔌 proximities.substack.com/abo…
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Wednesday was a rough day for CNN. Today will be even worse.
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China sticks with zero-COVID policy as quarantine video causes outrage aje.io/492oey
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Enjoyed talking to @HackWelsh for this. He is bringing years of knowledge and experience to new project
"We cannot ignore the broader political and economic climate that incentivizes and encourages giving bad information with little or no penalties for doing so." - @quinnfergal #journalism #fakenews
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Ethiopia’s government accepted an invitation by the African Union to talks about ending the nation’s two-year civil war. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Fuel for thought from the Angry Editor @HackWelsh:
(Disclosure - I’m biased on this one)
"Imagine starting out in a profession—a tough profession—and being told there are few jobs and people will mostly hate you." - @doyle_kevin #journalism
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War crimes tribunal's appeal chamber upholds genocide conviction against former Khmer Rouge head of state, Khieu Samphan. #Cambodia
#UPDATE Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal upholds the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on former head of state Khieu Samphan.
The court said the 91-year-old was also guilty of multiple crimes against humanity for his role in the genocidal regime
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Spoke with @HackWelsh for his The Angry Editor substack, about journalism, the fragmentation of truth and other not-at-all depressing things. angryeditor.substack.com/p/j…
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“A travesty of justice.”
“Ms. Seng should never have been put on trial.”
#Cambodia should release #ThearySeng
The trial of Cambodian American lawyer Theary Seng was “a travesty of justice,” a new @TrialWatch report found, giving the trial an “F”: @TrialWatch's lowest possible grade. cfj.org/news_posts/egregious…
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Egypt to free Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Al Najdi, who has been detained since August 2020, says lawyer aje.io/dxjn2s
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In 12 days we're going to try and deflect an asteroid by ramming it - to prove a way to protect Earth. The dinosaurs wished they had @NASA.
Details: dart.jhuapl.edu/ – at Kananaskis, Alberta
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Journalists in movies: the editor trusts me to follow my gut
Actual journalists: I’m thinking about switching to marketing
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Vietnam War photographer Tim Page has died in Bellingen after a battle with cancer. He took one of my all-time favourite photos, of a crowd recoiling from the dust kicked up by a helicopter during 1993 elections staged under the aegis of a UN peacekeeping operation in Cambodia:
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Tomorrow marks 5 years since #Myanmar's military began a brutal crackdown on the Rohingya that drove more than 700,000 to flee.
New evidence, from internal docs gathered by @CIJAOnline, shows how the purge was planned. Our report from earlier this month:
reuters.com/investigates/spe…
