English Language Publishing in Asia
Reuben M
The official voice of Daffy Duck in Asia, Tex Avery and the National Geographic Channel, Reuben M is one of Asia’s best known voice over artists. He has an official biography on IMDB.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Ying Chan
Hong Kong-born journalist Ying Chan worked at a range of publications including Sing Tao newspaper and the New York Daily News before founding The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies
Centre in September 1999.
Chan’s honours include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists. She taught
at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association. Chan has a bachelor’s degree (social sciences) from HKU and a Masters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Source: Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong
Popularity: 4% [?]
Nick Swanson
An A330 pilot and entrepreneur, Nick Swanson started the Hong Kong-based Internet radio station HKGFM in July 2007 out of frustration with the offering over the airwaves.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Phnom Penh Post
One of Southeast Asia’s legendary publications, the Phnom Penh Post founded by legendary editor Michael Hayes. It was the first English-language newspaper in Cambodia when launched in 1992.
The newspaper has scooped up a number of awards in 2009, including those for reporting and photography at the Society of Publishers in Asia’s annual competition.
As the post reported about itself:
Vandy Rattana, Chhay Channyda and Rick Valenzuela took the Excellence in News Photography award for their coverage of Boeung Kak lake, where a private company is reclaiming the natural reservoir to build a commercial and residential project, affecting more than 4,000 families. The judges said the essay and singles were “striking, heartbreaking images that are also visually complex”.
May Titthara and Christopher Shay won the award for Excellence in Human Rights Reporting for their article “Escape from Hell on the High Sea: Nine trafficked Men Return Home”, on 17 men repatriated from Malaysia after having escaped forced labour on a Thai fishing boat. The judges called the report “enterprising work from a small publication”.
The Post’s publisher, Ross Dunkley, and its managing editor, Seth Meixner, received the awards at the Hong Kong ceremony. The newspaper had entered submissions from its daily-newspaper coverage, which began in August after more than a decade as a fortnightly paper, in the group for English-language local newspapers and magazines with a circulation less than 50,000.
Popularity: 3% [?]
HongKongFM
An all-music radio station, presented in a video on this blog by founder by pilot Nick Swanson. HongKongFM publicizes heavily in Hong Kong and aims to get Internet listeners eager for music without too much talk.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Marketing publisher trash-talks rival Media Magazine
Justin Randles, founder of Marketing Magazine, trashtalks the competition in this video below, saying why you should read his recently launched publication and ignore his highly established main competitor, Media Magazine.
(With Marketing magazine fighting Media magazine it can get somewhat confusing. Can someone please tell these guys to think up more creative titles for their publications?)
Founded out of Singapore by Randles in 2002, Marketing Magazine is intended to attract marketing, advertising and media professionals in Asia. The publication has opened up market-by-market using an online first strategy. If the online audience seems to justify the investment, they launch a publication, as they recently did in Hong Kong in 2007.
Media Magazine, published by industry giant Haymarket, just doesn’t match the ambitions of Marketing Magazine, Randles said.
“Their approach is pretty much one magazine for Asia, whereas we treat each country as a separate and parochial market,” Randles said. “When we go into one market, such as Singapore, we really focus on the needs of our target audience in that particular market.”
In the second video, Matt Eaton, editor of Marketing Magazine for Hong Kong, explains his editorial approach to the market.
Update from Eaton: Marketing will soon be audited in Hong Kong. They currently claim a print run of 9500 mags for Hong Kong and added another 1116 email addresses added in China this week to make for a total of 8500 e-newsletters going out each weekday in Hong Kong and China
Anyone from Media Magazine available for comment?
More on Randles’ market-entry strategy in a previous posting Justin Randles: 4 ways the Internet has changed niche publishing.
This is a further installment of my postings on English language publishing in Asia.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Should you read The Asia Media Journal?
Today my tour of English language publishing in Asia brings us Mike Savage, editor of The Asia Media Journal, explaining why we should read his publication.
Mike has covered media for more than ten years, including six years in Britain before coming out to Hong Kong about four years ago.
His publication, which covers developments about the media in Asia, differentiates itself through depth of coverage, Mike said. The publication is closely associated with Media Partners Asia, a consultancy that specializes in analyzing Asian media markets. They put out thick publications on a range of topics. They have a sister site: Media Research Asia.
While the publication comes out about four times per year, Mike updates The Asia Media Journal blog regularly.
Not convinced? See video for more.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Congrats to Asian Editorial Award Winners
Congratulations to the many winners of awards at the SOPA editorial awards tonight.
SOPA honored Asia’s best journalists for their outstanding work.
(Apparently, however, the Society of Publishers in Asia did not seek proofreading help from the Society of Copy Editors in Asia.)
FEER blogged what many writers and editors in the audience must have been thinking: “There but for the grace of God go I.”
The Awards for Editorial Excellence have grown considerably in size and stature in recent years.
I have been involved in judging the awards for more than six years and remember when we had only a few entries from a several countries. Tonight’s awards were handed out at a pace of one per minute for great journalism done in countries across the region.
Keynote speaker Ching Cheong (in photo above), the Straits Times journalist jailed for 1,000 days in China, spoke about the importance of the values held in Hong Kong, particularly in relation to protest and free expression.
Earlier in the day I co-organized a lunch on the Future of Media in Asia that was packed with a very high level audience and included panelists who were wonderfully combative.
Popularity: 5% [?]
AsiaXpat
A website launched by Paul Luciw in 2000 that aims to help expatriates in cities across Asia find practical information and conduct a range of business transactions. See full profile (link below) for details.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Frank Proctor
A longtime Hong Kong resident, Frank Proctor was for many years Newsweek’s general manager for Asia and international circulation director. In February 2007 he launched Muse Magazine, a cultural magazine for Hong Kong.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Muse Magazine
A publication on Hong Kong’s cultural scene launched in February 2007. On sale in bookstores and select newsstands, the magazine’s cover price of 50 HKD is intended to give the publication value and encourage subscriptions. From the monthly print run of around 8,000 copies per month, the magazine reached 1,000 paid subscriptions and several hundred copies sold on newsstands by March 2008.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Mike Savage
Mike Savage, editor of Asia Media Journal, has covered media for more than ten years, including six years in Britain before coming out to Hong Kong about four years ago.
The Asia Media Journal covers developments about the media in Asia and differentiates itself through depth of coverage, Mike said. The publication is closely associated with Media Partners Asia, a consultancy that specializes in analyzing Asian media markets. They put out thick publications on a range of topics.
Popularity: 3% [?]
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
