Alan Soon
Co-Founder, CEO of The Splice Newsroom. Covering the business of media transformation in Asia. Follow Alan on Twitter.
Building innovation culture through the Google News Initiative Design Accelerator 2019
It's all about new business models, products, and cultural practices
The media space in Cambodia hasn’t shrunk. It’s fragmented — but led by trusted voices.
This is how to build an ecosystem around that trend.
Getting started with podcasting
Some advice from the Splice community on tools and workflows.
Why we need to celebrate media startups
Here’s the short answer to that headline: Because if the industry doesn’t celebrate its own, then no one will.
Splice 100: Our crazy plan to catalyze a generation of media startups in Asia.
Splice and Civil Media are starting a $1 million fund to help create 100 media startups in 3 years. We need your help.
18 months in, the SCMP is on a very different footing. This is what CEO Gary Liu did to turn things around.
"No communication, lack of trust, lack of transparency: that became the number one issue we had to tackle."
A summit, the media, and a $25-million gamble.
What exactly did newsrooms get out of sending their journalists to the Trump-Kim summit? The numbers don't add up.
Erin Cook’s newsletter is brash, funny, and an indispensable guide to Southeast Asia news.
Sometimes if you can't find what you want, you'll just have to write it yourself. This is how one Australian journalist is building a community around her newsletter.
How Australia’s Stockhead uses the best of digital marketing to build a niche audience of stock traders.
Custom audiences, re-targeting, lookalikes. Not the kind of stuff you'd hear in a newsroom. That's the difference.
Coconuts, once a fast-growing BuzzFeed-style site in Asia, takes a hard right into memberships.
The digital ecosystem is “all fucked up,” says founder Byron Perry. But will people pay for his content?
The News Lens in Taiwan is doing what most media startups won’t — it’s acquiring its peers.
With its second acquisition in three months, co-founder Joey Chung is taking a page out of Vox's playbook.
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