Pressing Matters
Pressing Matters
We go behind the headlines and explore issues driving the press with journalists and media practitioners themselves - as well as the forces that shape the broader industry. Whether it's traditional, new or social media, we cover the gamut of stories and perspectives from the Fourth Estate.Social links:
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The Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis In Myanmar
We highlight the worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar in the Rakhine State and beyond with Shinjiro Murata, General Director, MSF Japan. As the world has been overwhelmed with crisis after crisis, we in Malaysia seem to have forgotten that we are witnessing one right at our doorstep. Shinjiro s…
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BTS Of The Greatest Show On Earth
In today's Pressing Matters, we go behind the scenes with journalist Ira Porter from the Monitor about the recently concluded Paris Olympics. We ask him how the games delivered for the audience and athletes as well as get his take on what does Los Angeles need to learn to from the recently conclude…
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Venezuela's High Stake Elections
Following the conclusion of voting in Venezuela's presidential elections, the streets erupted with protests as conflicting results emerge with both the government and the opposition claiming victory. Philip See speaks to Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández a lecturer in the departments of Anthropology …
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Bangladesh's Unprecedented Violent Protests
Following a series of violent protests triggered by job quotas, we speak to Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Center's South Asia Institute about how the protests grew so fast and what does it mean for the ruling party of Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. Michael unpacks whether these prote…
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Post Mortem on Global IT Outage
On today’s show, we do a post mortem on the unprecedented IT outage that created chaos throughout the world a little over a week ago. The outage resulted in massive disruptions from healthcare to banking to airlines as a result of a relatively simple single software update by cybersecurity firm Cro…
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Will Trump 2.0 Be Different From Trump 1.0?
We discuss with Dr Adrian Ang from the S Rajaratnam School of international studies on the recently concluded Republic Convention which anointed President Donald Trump as the Republic Candidate to face Democrat Joe Biden in the upcoming November Polls. Adrian helps us unpack how the convention went…
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Turbulence In The PH1.0 Government
On today's show Pressing Matters Philip See speaks to Romen Bose an international correspondent and former political communications consultant about his latest book Shattered Hopes. He gives us a blow by blow account about the turbulent times that faced the then Pakatan Harapan PH1.0 government and…
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Malaysia's Media Industry Continues To Struggle
In this week's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Prof. Zaharom Nain, author of the Malaysia country report of the Reuters Institute's 2024 Digital News Report. We discuss with Zaharom the multitude of challenges that the media industry is facing and how the Government's actions or lack off has…
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South Africa's New Ruling Coalition
In this week's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Louw Nel, Senior Political Analyst, Oxford Economics Africa about the recently concluded elections in South Africa where the incumbent African National Congress or ANC suffered deep losses forcing it into a power sharing agreement with the oppos…
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Will Modi 3.0 Be Very different?
On today's Pressing Matters, Philip See speaks to Dr Rahul Mishra from University of Malaya to unpack the recent Indian general elections. Many had expected Narendra Modi and his BJP / NDA alliance to win convincingly in the polls. He in the end didn't, with the NDA alliance falling far short of th…
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