Is Buzzfeed finding trouble trying to break into hard news?
Buzzfeed has been the buzz word (See what I just did there?? Hahaha!!) for many news content producers around the world for their viral stories and massive traffic. Every one […]
The Fat Bidin Podcast (Ep 49) – Mass graves… national security issue or tourism opportunity?
The Fat Bidin Podcast (Ep 49) – Mass graves… national security issue or tourism opportunity? Zan and Aizyl discuss the proposal to turn the mass graves found in Perlis into […]
Open-mic journalism
Seeing how my love for storytelling is the reason why I am in the career that I am in (journalism, of course!), I was naturally attracted to this story which was […]
Less apathy and more empathy for fellow human beings
Less apathy and more empathy for fellow human beings By Zan Azlee If all this while Malaysians have always been apathetic to the plight of people different than them, then […]
Pakchic Says: Baby on the way! 5 tips to prepare your toddler for a new sibling
Pakchic Says: Baby on the way! 5 tips to prepare your toddler for a new sibling By Zan Azlee “If it’s a baby girl, then she will be in mummy’s […]
No Rohingya in this village
No Rohingya in this village By Zan Azlee The whole world is looking at Malaysia and the Southeast Asian region due to the recent Rohingya humanitarian crisis where more than […]
The Fat Bidin Film Club (Ep 10) – Mad Max: Fury Road
The Fat Bidin Film Club (Ep 10) – Mad Max: Fury Road The Fat Bidin Film Club invites special guest Arif Rafhan Othman (aka Apan) to chat about the new […]
Freelance writers banding together to take powers out of the hands of publishers
I was a freelance writer for about 15 years (wait a minute… I still am actually!) and the issue of rates and payments has always been one that is icky […]
A photo print of an ultra-poor Hazarat family in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
In war-torn countries, it is almost too common to see the ultra-poor unable to bring themselves ahead in life. And this was what I saw in Afghanistan. In the mountains of […]
Should metrics and audience analytics determine journalistic and editorial direction?
The human factor or the Chartbeat culture? This is a debate that has been raging on in newsrooms everywhere (including here in Malaysia) and the most common argument is that […]
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