Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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News of President’s election censored in Burma

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Wednesday, 16 February 2011 21:33 Tun Tun

New Delhi (Mizzima) – According to domestic media sources, the news of President Thein Sein’s election was not allowed to be published in domestic-based journals specializing in economics, arts and aesthetics.

According to Information Ministry figures for 2009,
there are 135 journals with publishing licenses in
Burma. Photo : Mizzima
The Press Scrutiny and Registration Division [censorship board] only allowed the news to be published in newspapers or news periodicals.

‘We wanted to offer this news in our economic journal, but we were not allowed to publish it’, an editor told Mizzima.

‘The censor board told us that only news journal were allowed to print such political news and not other journals.’

At a joint session of Parliament on February 4, Then Sein was elected president and Thihathura Tin Aung Myint Oo and Sai Mauk Kham were elected vice presidents.

One editor suggested that the ban reflected the difficulty of the censorship board’s dealing with what it considered sensitive information.

‘They have to make a thorough check of the news and it is a complicated process. If they made some mistakes in censoring articles, they have to give clarifications and explanations to the Information Ministry’, said a source close to the ministry.

According to the rules of the censorship board, the publishing license holders for economics, arts, knowledge and aesthetic journals are not allowed to print political news, but some journals which have a close rapport with the board are frequently allowed to print such information.

Citing one example, one editor said Modern Times journal has submitted news stories on the arts along with some political articles and published both in the journal.

‘Sometimes they were permitted and sometimes not, in an arbitrary fashion’, the editor told Mizzima.

According to Information Ministry figures for 2009, there are 135 journals with  publishing licenses in Burma.

According to a report issued by Reporters sans Frontiers (RSF), Burma is one of the five worse countries for media freedom in the world, rated  174 out of a total of 178 ranked countries.

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