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Splice Pink

Pink is where we have quick conversations with people across the global media ecosystem: media startup founders, tech, data, and design folks, investors, journalists, media development funders and donors, product managers, and academics.

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Myanmar journalists in exile still need support. Here's what you can do

These are some of the best sessions from Splice Beta 2023. This episode features December Khaing.

Exile Hub started soon after the coup in Myanmar when hundreds of journalists started flowing across into Thailand for refuge. Exile Hub's multifaceted approach includes psychosocial support, offering shelter and mental health services, as well as personal safety, border safety, and digital safety workshops. 

At Splice Beta 2023, December Khaing talked about the organisation’s work and the challenges faced by Myanmar’s journalists living in exile. 

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How journalists and a drag content creator are working together to fight disinfo in the Philippines

These are some of the best sessions from Splice Beta 2023. This episode features Your Tita Baby and Jen Aquino.

In response to the rise of fake news on social media, Philippine media startup Probe launched a fact-checking campaign called Tsek/Eks. To engage the younger demographic, they collaborated with influencers, in an initiative that was unheard of in the media space. One such partnership was with Your Tita Baby, a drag queen content creator. Your Tita Baby emphasised her unique perspective as a Gen Xer with a foot in both the millennial and baby boomer generations.

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How Joey Chung of TNL Mediagene acquires media companies… as a media company

We're putting together some of the best sessions from Splice Beta 2023. This episode features Joey Chung of TNL Mediagene in Taiwan. Joey talks to the Beta 2023 crowd about his strategy of acquiring media companies — as a media company.

“Our overarching strategy has resulted in 50 to 60 million monthly unique readers across multiple languages. Regarding monetisation, one-third stems from media advertising, another third from data analytics, AI, SaaS, and tech services, and the remaining third from e-commerce, agency communications, paid events, and memberships.”

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How Tanmoy Goswami of Sanity by Tanmoy builds products for his mental health journalism startup

We're putting together some of the best sessions from Splice Beta 2023. This episode features Tanmoy Goswami of Sanity by Tanmoy. Tanmoy talks to a large crowd about how — and why — he builds products for his mental health journalism startup.

He also discusses his unique approach to success metrics, emphasising the importance of consistency and recognising that people support the creator rather than the product

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