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Opinion, Originals

India’s #MeToo movement is shaking up newsrooms and putting male journalists on notice

Conversations on gender inequality, consent in office spaces, and the sexual harassment of women reporters in the field are long overdue.

Divya Chandrababu

Splice India

Originals, Reporting

How the Sarawak Report broke Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal

With no money and no fear, even the scrappiest online operation can bring down a sitting prime minister.

Susan Tam

Splice Malaysia

Leah Jing established Liminal to combat mis- and under-representation in Australian media. Photo by Leah Jing.

Media startups, Originals

Enter Liminal, the new media force carving out a space for Asian-Australians.

Fed up with ‘male, stale and pale’ in Australia's media landscape, Leah Jing created her own platform.

Erin Cook

Splice

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