Sonny Swe

    Co-founder and CEO, Frontier Myanmar

    Sonny is a pioneer in the Myanmar media industry with more than 20 years’ experience. In 2000, he co-founded The Myanmar Times – the first Myanmar-foreign joint venture in Myanmar’s media industry – and is also a former CEO of the Mizzima Media Group, which published a daily newspaper, a weekly English Magazine, news websites. He established Black Knight Media, publisher of Frontier Myanmar, in 2015.

    All Sessions by Sonny Swe

    • 28 July

      Thurs

    • 10:30  - 11:00
      Frontier Myanmar founder and CEO, Sonny Swe spent years in jail under the junta. A former co-owner of Myanmar Times, he launched Frontier Magazine in 2015. Now in exile in Thailand, Sonny struggles to continue reporting about Myanmar and to monetize his magazine's news content.
      Plenary



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