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Our mission is to drive radical change by supporting bold, forward-looking media startups in Asia. In order to do this, we report on, teach, transform, and fund newsrooms in Asia.

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Splice Lights On

Originals, Research

The Splice Lights On survey shows that over 40% of media orgs expect to start cutting jobs in the next 12 months.

Newsrooms need access to funds if we're going to avoid a mass layoff of journalists.

Taiwan-based Womany — 女人迷 in Chinese — is setting itself up as a regional media focused on gender issues. Photo by Antonia Timmerman.

Media startups, Originals

Informed by data, Taiwan’s female-focused media startup Womany preps Asia expansion

The 9-year-old company believes changes in Taiwan’s society could be a useful guide for other countries.

Antonia Timmerman

A team at Singapore Press Holdings pieces together users, their needs, and insights.

Resources, Originals

To build a valuable media product, first build a process that responds to an audience’s needs

This often means rebuilding your organisational culture to redefine your approach to revenue models, products, and most of all, audiences.

How-to

Watch Splice Low-Res

Knowledge from our media community check-ins from around the world: lessons, insights, and sharing

Fund

The Splice Beta Fund

Our prototyping grant for media entrepreneurs in Asia to test news products for audiences

Tools

Start your own newsletter

The highly prescriptive and opinionated Splice guide to setting up your own email newsletter

Research

Cambodia: Redefining media

The Splice report on the Cambodia media ecosystem

THE STATE OF THE INTERWEBS

“You don’t achieve simplicity by making things simple. You achieve simplicity by making things understood.”