"Funders should view youth media as critical infrastructure that builds trust, relevance and long-term support. Community building with young people and their educators today is the key to future sustainability. Let’s invest in what’s been proven to work."

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For Myanmar’s exiled media, the question is urgent: What happens when decades-long donors pull out?

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Many of Myanmar’s most reputable independent outlets now operate in exile, as journalism inside the country has been replaced by state propaganda in areas under regime control.

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Outlets that once competed are now sharing resources, coordinating fundraising, and working together to stay open — even as the country’s military regime seeks to erase independent journalism altogether.

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"Journalism indeed cannot claim to tell the whole story while erasing the people who make the telling possible. Unless the system changes, international reporting will remain built on an invisible backbone."

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International reporting depends on fixers, who bring knowledge of language, culture, and context that outsiders cannot. They open doors, navigate risks, and sometimes bear the brunt of backlash. Yet they are often underpaid, uncredited, and unprotected.

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