After the invitation from Thailand's media council, Eleven Media Group's (EMG) Executive Director Ko Min Thaw Htut attended the seminar "The Impact of Covid-19 to Online Media", hosted by the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Thai PBS held the seminar on October 29, attended and discused by representatives from notable online media organizations across south-east asia.
The seminar, regularly held biannually by the Society of Online News Providers (SONP), focused this year on COVID-19 and its impact on news publishing organizations.
EMG, represented by Ko Min Thaw Htut, participated and shared its own experiences and advice during the COVID-19 period as to how online medias are currently faring, possible complications in the future, how it had managed to overcome the challenges and for medias to how best transition to digital.
"COVID pushed the media industry into a tight bind. Not only financially but it is difficult even to cover news. In recent years, Myanmar also saw the decline of Journalism that was truly independent; whether it is due to the political situation or now, COVID. I hope that the independent news media journalism will survive until COVID ends," said Ko Min Thaw Htut.
He also disclosed how the EMG had managed to stand on its own two legs despite Myanmar struggling from the COVID crisis.
The seminar was aimed at sharing information that will be useful for online media organizations during a period of severe COVID impact and how to best survive it as well as to discuss and critique from differing points of view so that all my be best prepared moving forward.
Five questions, focused on challenges and opportunities brought on by the crisis as well as future outlook for online media, were also discussed.
