Welcome to Frontier Myanmar

Backstory

Since launching in 2015, Frontier Myanmar has provided its readers balanced, in-depth reporting and insights from the ground to help them make sense of what’s happening in Myanmar.

With a focus on long-form and investigative articles, insights and analysis, we’ve built up a reputation for quality journalism in an increasingly difficult operating environment – one in which media organisations are regularly banned, and journalists face the threat of arrest or worse just for doing their job.

Membership

In January 2020, we embarked on a big change in how we generate revenue from our journalism and how we collaborate with our readers.

We launched something that had never been done before in Myanmar’s media industry: a membership programme. We asked readers and supporters – people like you – to invest in our journalism by becoming members.

And, in what we think was another first for Myanmar, we designed our membership package together with our readers, getting feedback at every step along the way.

Running a newsroom isn’t cheap, particularly when you try to cover all corners of the country.

We’ve always sought to pay for our reporting through commercial revenue, but the changing times meant the ad-based revenue model that we initially pursued was no longer viable.

We needed a new approach, but we didn’t want to put a paywall in place to drive subscriptions. We believe it’s important that we keep our reporting accessible to everyone, regardless of whether they can afford to pay for it.

The success of our membership programme depends on the input and support of our readers. You can learn about how the project started here. It’s worth a read if you want to learn about why we’re doing it and where we hope it will lead.