#India 🇮🇳: Sri-Nagar based journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo, who along with other four members of Reuter team won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, was barred from flying to the United States to receive the prize. IFJ ifj.org/media-centre/n…

'You can’t blur the lines between reporting and aid. As tempting as it is to provide material support for people, you have to be careful about doing that. Bringing attention to their plight can help them in other ways.'

-Margherita Stancati 🌸 | #MediaInsiders : Covering #BreakingNews

'When a disaster happens, the most important thing that matters is time. We have to move fast and talk to people that we are able to find.'

-Yuan Ye | #MediaInsiders : Covering #BreakingNews

📥 Panel Discussion at sopasia.com/covering-break…

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'I always remind myself that the purpose of being here is to accurately convey interviewees’ voices. Setting up an emotional breakpoint helps me be more rational & maintain my role as a journalist.'

-Fu-Nien Tsao | #MediaInsiders : Covering #BreakingNews

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'When you interfere, you must be passionate and sensitive; but when you write, you have to be calm.'

-Wai Kwan | #MediaInsiders : Covering #BreakingNews

📥 Panel Discussion Transcript at sopasia.com/covering-break…

NYT: Young, Underground Reporters ‘Fight a Gun With a Pen’ in Myanmar nytimes.com/2022/10/12/wor…

📺 Panel discussion of #MediaInsiders - Covering #BreakingNews is now up on SOPA YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/cOR4UFQMQrk

Moderated by Lulu Yilun Chen — joined by panels of experts Wai Kwan, Fu-Nien Tsao, Margherita Stancati 🌸, & Yuan Ye.

🔊 Panel transcript ➡️ sopasia.com/covering-break…

💭 Get ready to immerse w stories that took us inside Zhenzhou floods; ethical dilemma that medical staff faced during peak of COVID in Taiwan; desperate scene to flee Afghanistan; and, last night before the shuttering of iconic newspaper Apple Daily in 🇭🇰

See you tomorrow!

📢 Know more on the takeaways from dealing w interviewees experiencing trauma as Yuan Ye rehash the horror, heartbreak, & humility from the Zhenzhou floods that shook a nation.

📝 Don't miss out on #MediaInsider : Covering #BreakingNews ! Register ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

💡 Gain insight on the takeaways on how reporters maintain objectivity when covering topics where emotions run high as Margherita Stancati 🌸 shares how she managed to narrate the desperate scene to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban took over.

📝 Register here ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🔍 GET TO KNOW Covering #BreakingNews Panel: Margherita Stancati 🌸 of The Wall Street Journal.

Stancati won Editorial Award for Excellence at #SOPAwards2022 for her story 'Saigon on Steroids' as it vividly captured the transition and final collapse of the Afghan government.

📰 wsj.com/articles/saigo…

📌 Fu-Nien Tsao is one of the #SOPAwards2022 Finalists for the Carlos Tejada Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting.

More about learning to report and craft narratives for rapidly evolving news at the #MediaInsider webinar. Register here ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🔍 GET TO KNOW Covering #BreakingNews Panel: Fu-Nien Tsao of 報導者 The Reporter.

Fu-Nien's story of exposing the plight of hospital overcrowding + government's untold truth in Taiwan's COVID response received Editorial Award for Excellence at #SOPAwards2022 .

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⚠️ Don't miss out on the final #MediaInsider Series w the winners and finalists of the #SOPAwards2022 on #BreakingNews —presenting journalists from 端傳媒 Initium Media, 報導者 The Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, and Sixth Tone.

📮 More about the event on SOPA Newsletter➡️ mailchi.mp/sopasia.com/br…

💡 The Society of Publishers in Asia also commissioned #NewsSustainability Report 2022 which aimed to highlight the challenges & opportunities within the region’s news media landscape, and how organizations are rethinking business models as consumer demands evolve.

📑 Learn More: sopasia.com/news/news-sust…

📢 In celebration of #WorldNewsDay , The Society of Publishers in Asia continues to uphold #pressfreedom and media standards thru the SOPA Awards for Editorial Excellence which serves as a regional benchmark for quality and professional #journalism .

📺 Lookback on #SOPAwards2022 : youtu.be/h_w3PDZC3ZU