Will THE PHNOM PENH POST be the Next English Newspaper to be Shut Down in Cambodia? (UPDATE)

epidemiks · Post by **epidemiks** » Mon May 07, 2018 6:38 pm

timmydownawell wrote:Not off to a great start:

Not to mention the CEO and 4 other senior journalists that resigned this afternoon in protest.

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Mon May 07, 2018 6:44 pm

I can see this topic ongoing for a few years as A sues B for defamation C and D sue for damages and compensation, And the list will go on and on.

Artful Dodger · Post by **Artful Dodger** » Mon May 07, 2018 7:02 pm

cambo swa wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 9:44 am
General Mackevili wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 6:48 am
cambo swa wrote:Next - CEO? 440?
Would a forum such as CEO be permitted to operate or operate uncensored in China?
Pay your taxes?
Shit, it was a typo. This site was supposed to say Columbia Expats Online.

But in all seriousness, who knows. That said, we do edit the PM's name out and I'm about as interested in local politics as I am in basket weaving.
"Military rule in Thailand, Military rule in Myanmar, Communism in Laos, Dictator in Cambodia
SE Asia is gong to shit"

Yes, who knows?

mmmmm ? Dictatorship in Cambodia??? Wow.. I get a temporary ban from this forum for saying less.

Steivan · Post by **Steivan** » Tue May 08, 2018 1:40 am

Considering the backgrounds of the owners a merger with Khmer Times might occur in the foreseeable future.

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Tue May 08, 2018 7:50 am

The fat lady has sung;

Cambodia’s last independent newspaper has had its editorial team gutted after its managing editor, web editor and two senior journalists resigned following a demand from the Phnom Penh Post’s new owner to take down an article reporting on the sale of the paper over the weekend. The Post’s editor-in-chief Kay Kimsong was then fired for his role in the article’s publication.

“I got fired by the new owner…because I’m the editor-in-chief and I allowed the printing of the independent story based on journalistic integrity,” Kimsong told Southeast Asia Globe shortly after he was dismissed. “I trust my reporters and my editors and I think that being journalists, we made the right decision. But it’s their business and they said, ‘Kimsong, you’re the editor-in-chief – and you made a big mistake.’”

Phil Robertson, the deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, described the deal as “a staggering blow to press freedom in Cambodia.”

http://sea-globe.com/phnom-penh-post-se ... ensorship/

Felgerkarb · Post by **Felgerkarb** » Tue May 08, 2018 8:45 am

Should have played ball. Waiting to find out what was really going on and reported on that (what stories down the line were crushed, altered, etc..), Instead we have only a veneer of the truth. Excellent journalism. Quit in a huff, well played.

Good riddance.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue May 08, 2018 1:29 pm

Post senior staff out in dispute over article
8 May 2018
Kay Kimsong, editor-in-chief of The Phnom Penh Post, was fired on Monday by a representative for the newspaper’s new Malaysian owner Sivakumar S Ganapathy, a day after The Post published an article about links between his public relations firm and the HE government.

Representatives for the paper’s new owners ordered senior staff on Monday to remove from the newspaper’s website what they described as a “damaging” article that they said contained a litany of factual inaccuracies.

Five senior staff members – Managing Editor Stuart White, Digital Director Jodie DeJonge, Web Editor Jenni Reid, Business Editor Brendan O’Byrne and senior journalist Ananth Baliga – resigned in protest, as well as CEO Marcus Holmes.

Afterwards, Kimsong told staffers that Ly Tayseng, a Cambodian lawyer who represents the buyer, told him he had made “a serious mistake” in publishing the article and fired him.

Tayseng also informed staff that Joshua Purushotman would be the new editor in chief of The Post “starting today” and that all articles would be approved by him.

In a meeting with staff, Tayseng and Purushotman defended Kimsong’s firing as a business matter.

“The business is losing money. We have [to] recruit the new editor in chief, and he’s coming to work starting from today. So we don’t have to pay two for the same position,” Tayseng said. “This is just normal business restructuring.”

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... er-article

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue May 08, 2018 3:17 pm

A report from the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/worl ... -sale.html

IraHayes · Post by **IraHayes** » Tue May 08, 2018 3:22 pm

Another report on the PPPost affair from John J Xenakis over at Generational Dynamics .com

http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e180508

Heng Heng Heng · Post by **Heng Heng Heng** » Wed May 09, 2018 6:06 am

Bedtime for democracy.

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