Splice Lo-Fi

This week, we're chatting with Darathtey from Cambodia — she writes the Campuccino newsletter on Substack. All the news about Cambodia delivered to your inbox. She explains how she got started and where things are headed.Subscribe to Campuccino:https://campuccino.substack.com/Connect with Darathtey on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/darathteydin/Follow her on Twitter:https://twitter.com/darathteydin/More about what we do at Splice Media:http://splicemedia.com/

We're finally saying hello properly to our friend Aulia Masna at Indonesian media startup Asumsi, who's been hanging around this audio room since we started. We talked about his role as Corporate Chief Editor (what does that mean?), how he's growing their audience with new products... and this little thing that blew our minds: Did you know that Indonesian politicians are sponsoring esports to reach younger audiences?More about Asumsi here:http://asumsi.co/Check out Asumsi's channel on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/Asumsiasumsi/Connect with Aulia on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/auliamasna/

This week, we spoke with Nabilah Said about her work as the editor of Singapore-based ArtsEquator. She talked about the importance of supporting criticism and analysis, and the training they're doing to raise a generation of great arts writers.More on ArtsEquator:https://artsequator.com/Connect with Nabilah on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabilahsaid/Find out more about Splice and our work:http://splicemedia.com/

We had a delightful chat with Peiying Loh, who's the co-founder of Kontinentalist, a Singapore-based media startup that tells gorgeous data-driven stories about Asia. We spoke about how the company came together, its business model, and the wonderful team she's assembled.More about Kontinentalist:https://kontinentalist.com/Connect with Peiying on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/peiyinglohFind out more about Splice and the work we do to support media startups in Asia:http://splicemedia.com/

We caught up with Mongolian creator Anu Harchu. She left her career at Bloomberg TV Mongolia to focus on her thriving brand as a YouTube creator. Plenty of great lessons in here for newsrooms, as well as folks looking to make that jump over to content creation.Hosted by Splice co-founders Rishad Patel and Alan Soon. Subscribe to Anu on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/anuharchuFollow her on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/anuharchu/Connect with her on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuharchu/More on Splice Media:http://splicemedia.com/

Anand Tumurtogoo has had enough of how foreign media talks about Mongolia. He spoke with us about the need to change these stereotypes, the nuances of the media landscape in Mongolia... and the origins of Mongolian names.Follow Anand on Twitter:https://twitter.com/ananddairtanReach him on Muckrack:https://muckrack.com/anand-tumurtogooRead his recent piece on breaking the stereotypes of Mongolia in foreign media:https://unbiasthenews.org/mind-the-gaze-mongolia-unbias-the-news/

Today we've got our good friend Yan Oak, founder of Thibi — a data visualization startup based in Singapore. Yan and his team are among the best dataviz folks in the region. We've worked with them on projects in the past and we love the dedication of this crew. We spoke about where dataviz is headed, and what interesting data journalism business models could come out of it.More on Thibi:https://thibi.co/Follow Yan on Twitter:https://twitter.com/yanoak

This week we're chatting with the brilliant Darsh Kandasamy of the Between The Lines newsletter — smart, opinionated perspectives on Malaysian politics. We talked about audience strategy, new formats, and serving her community.Check out Between The Lines (worth a subscription too!):https://betweenthelines.my/Connect with Darsh on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshini-kandasamy-04198474/

Mithil Aggarwal calls himself a student journalist, but he also produces and hosts a podcast called The Curiously Candid Show that sounds insanely professional. We talked to Mithil about how he stumbled on journalism, and where he's taking podcasting.Check out Mithil's work here:http://www.thecuriouslycandidshow.me/Connect with Mithil on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithilagg/

We had an amazing Lo-Fi session with Hyderabad-based Suno India's co-founder Padma Priya this morning. We talked about podcasting as a format, conveying difficult issues in audio, and learning to take better care of ourselves and our teams.Our Lo-Fi sessions take place every Friday at 11 am Singapore time. Join us in our Telegram group:https://t.me/splicenewsroomConnect with Padma on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/padmapriyadvl/Follow Padma on Twitter:https://twitter.com/priyakamalMore on Suno India:https://www.sunoindia.in/

This week, we checked in with our friend Carljoe Javier, the CEO of Puma Podcasts in Manila. We spoke about how the company has grown and how they're capturing the podcast market in the country. More about Puma:https://pumapodcast.com/Connect with Carl on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/carljoe-javier/

Johanna Son is the founder, editor, and manager of Reporting ASEAN, a media startup based in Bangkok. She started the organization in 2014 to cover the region and to train journalists to do more of that. On Lo-Fi this week, Johanna talked about the difficulties in getting training across ASEAN.Connect with Johanna on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-son-a6010a83/More on her work.https://www.reportingasean.net/

The School of Splice is coming together! It's everything you need to build a media startup today. It's all audio, and packs insights from all around this wonderful Splice community. Knowledge, network, funding -- all in one place. The program rolls out next month. Find out more here.http://schoolofsplice.com/

We spoke to Khalil Majeed about how the fact-checking workflow comes together, and how he and his co-founder TC Chan manage the students who run the operations.More on Faqcheck.https://www.faqcheck.org/Follow Khalil on LinkedIn.https://www.faqcheck.org/

Sheryl Lee at Mongabay is one of the newest people to pop into our Telegram chat, and because we're always interested in our community and how they made their way to journalism, we asked her to talk about her career. Sheryl is new to journalism; she graduated a year ago -- not in journalism, but in accounting and business. We talked about how to support new journalists finding their way through media.Follow Sheryl on LinkedIn.

We're speaking with Priya Thuvassery from Chambal Media in India about their new training academy for women journalists in rural communities. It's inspiring. They plan to train 270 women over the next three months across three states in India. The objective is to "go beyond the technical aspects of reporting and encourage students to recognize and understand gender, caste and patriarchy in our society, and how it affects the mainstream media narrative."Follow Priya on LinkedIn.Find out more about Chambal Media.

Subscribe to Nithin's Asia Undercovered newsletter.Follow Nithin on Twitter.

Follow the Boju Bajai podcast here.Support their work on Patreon.

More on Wapatoa and their work.Recent coverage of Wapatoa at Splice Beta.

More about MeaVox and their work.Follow Raven Lim on LinkedIn.

Find out more about Kirsten's mentorship plan.Subscribe to her newsletter here.

Follow Aye Min Thant on LinkedIn and on Twitter.Read and support the work of Frontier Myanmar.

Check out Project Multatuli.Follow Evi on LinkedIn.

TIA's reporting on Team Labs.Follow Terence Lee on LinkedIn.

SPH will now transfer the media business to a not-for-profit entity — a move that will make it easier for the company to reinvest whatever funds it can generate back into the business.

Read and subscribe to Sanity by Tanmoy, a newsletter on living with depression.Follow Tanmoy on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

Read Deborah's tips on pitching memberships here.Check out New Naratif's work.Connect with Deborah on LinkedIn.

Welcome to our first audio room experiment.