The Changing Face of News Consumption As we navigate through 2026, one thing is clear: the world of news is undergoing a monumental shift. The way audiences consume information has…
The Changing Face of News in Southeast Asia As we traverse through 2026, the world of news continues to transform at an unprecedented pace, especially in Southeast Asia. The region…
Step outside in parts of Sumatra or Kalimantan this September and you can taste the story before you read it. The air carries the faint bitterness of peat smoke, schoolyards…
At 7 a.m. in Jakarta, Dewi does something that would have felt strange five years ago: she opens her phone and deliberately mutes every news notification before her commute. She…
Walk into a busy newsroom in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, or Bangkok today and you will notice something that would have seemed unusual a decade ago. Alongside reporters working the…
Ask someone in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, or Manila where they first saw today’s biggest story, and the answer is increasingly the same: a forward in a family WhatsApp group, a…
It is September 2026, and the biggest story in Southeast Asian journalism is not an election upset, a celebrity scandal, or a market crash. It is whether the video you…
On a humid Tuesday morning in Jakarta, a commuter unlocks her phone and asks, half in Bahasa Indonesia and half in English, what is happening with the floods in West…
For most of its modern history, berita ran on a simple bargain. Readers got the news for free, advertisers paid for their attention, and newsrooms kept the lights on with…
When a footbridge collapsed in a small district outside Yogyakarta earlier this year, the first report did not come from a national broadcaster or a metro daily. It came from…
