The Cambodia Daily

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The Cambodia Daily
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description Cambodian daily newspaper
First edition August 20, 1993
attitude 4th September 2017
Frequency of publication Every day
Web link cambodiadaily.com

history

The Cambodia Daily was an English-language daily newspaper from Phnom Penh . It was founded in 1993 as the first English-language Cambodian daily newspaper by the US journalist Bernard Krisher , was considered politically independent and was in opposition to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who had ruled since 1985 . In addition to publishing an independent newspaper, Krisher also aimed to train Cambodian journalists. The newspaper appeared six times a week until 2017, and five times after that.

The paper contained four to ten pages of local news written by its Cambodian and foreign reporters. The regional and international news came from foreign agencies and news organizations such as Reuters , The Washington Post and Kyodo News . At the weekend the newspaper came with a four-color magazine with local and international reports. A daily section in Khmer summarized news translated from the English section, and the Monday edition included the English Weekly supplement with quizzes for English learners.

Well-known reports

Cambodia Daily has made a name for itself for its investigative journalism , particularly the illegal harvesting of timber , corruption and human rights violations including land seizures and evictions.

She has won a number of awards for her investigative journalism and reporting. In 2017, Daily journalists Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter won the Excellence in Investigative Reporting award from the Asian Publishers Association (SOPA) for their article Still Taking a Cut , which discussed the involvement of the Cambodian military in the illegal harvesting of timber. In 2016 daily journalists Julia Wallace, Kuch Naren, Chhorn Chansy and Ben Woods won an Excellence in Feature Writing from SOPA for their article Moving Dirt: A lucrative dirt trade is leaving holes in communities .

Great attention was also a year-long campaign by the Cambodia Daily against the known anti-trafficking activist Somaly Mam , the former president of the Somaly Mam Foundation , due to inconsistencies in her autobiography The Road of Lost Innocence (dt .: The Silence of Innocence ) who told her story as a sex slave in Cambodia and became an international bestseller. The Cambodia Daily first began to contradictions between their public statements and claims in her 2005 French and pointing published in 2008 in English book and the results published in October 2013 its investigation to Mams allegations of trafficking in her book that described the reporter as fictitious . A Newsweek report on the alleged forgery by former Daily journalist Simon Marks in May 2014 generated international attention, and Mam resigned from her foundation just days after the article was published. The New York Times quoted The Cambodia Daily , by first stating that the story of Somaly Mam's childhood, as alleged in 2012 and 2013, was wrong.

attitude

In autumn 2017, the newspaper should suddenly pay 5.3 million euros in taxes. It then ceased to appear on the date of the payment deadline on September 4, 2017. The last issue contained an article on the front page about the arrest of the leader of the political opposition Kem Sokha ( National Rescue Party of Cambodia ) for alleged treason with the title "Descent into an absolute dictatorship". The publisher and the editor of the newspaper said, according to NPR , the closure has nothing to do with a tax debt, but rather with the attempt by the Minister Hun Sen to bring oppositional opinions before parliamentary elections in July 2018 silence.

Popular independent radio stations such as Voice of America , Radio Free Asia and Voice of Democracy were also forced to close as part of a nationwide action against the media in September / August 2017. The journalist community and civil society showed their support for the newspaper through the social media movement #SaveTheDaily , and its closure received worldwide attention, including a. in the New York Times , Guardian , Washington Post, and Al Jazeera .

Relaunch as an internet newspaper

Six weeks after the printed newspaper was closed, a news overview appeared on its website as a prelude to an attempt to continue the paper as an Internet newspaper from outside Cambodia . On February 4, 2018, the Phnom Penh Post announced that the Secretary of State for the Cambodian Telecom Ministry, Khay Khunheng, had instructed all Cambodian ISPs to “block the Cambodia Daily website ... and guarantee that this website and its IP Address no longer operate in the Kingdom of Cambodia ” . The instruction also called for the Daily accounts on Facebook and Twitter to be blocked .

Despite this ban, the readership and the number of followers on social media have increased since September 2017. While the printed newspaper was still in English with some translations in Khmer, the Internet newspaper focuses more on the Khmer language by not only using text, but also also offers audio and video contributions. The YouTube channel in Khmer was launched in February 2018 and gained over 2,000 subscribers within two months, based on the increasing number of smartphones across the country and an audience with varying levels of reading ability. The content is recorded outside the country and can be accessed via the Cambodia Daily website , its Facebook channel and YouTube pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard C. Paddock: The Cambodia Daily to Close (After Chasing One Last Big Story). In: The New York Times . 3rd September 2017.
  2. ↑ Cambodia Daily shuts with 'dictatorship' parting shot at prime minister Hun Sen. In: The Guardian . 3rd September 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Janelle Retka: 24 Years of Print: The Daily's imprint on Cambodia. In: The Cambodia Daily. 4th September 2017.
  4. ^ Sun Narin: A Small Paper with a Big Impact. In: Voice of America . 3rd September 2017.
  5. ↑ Still Taking a Cut. In: The Cambodia Daily. December 16, 2016.
  6. ^ Daily Reporters Win Top Investigative Award. In: The Cambodia Daily. June 16, 2017.
  7. ^ Julia Wallace, Kuch Naren, Chhorn Chansy: Moving Dirt. A Lucrative Dirt Trade is Leaving Gaping Holes in Communities. In: The Cambodia Daily. June 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ The SOPA 2016 Awards for Editorial Excellence Awards Winners List. SOPA Awards (PDF; 525 kB).
  9. ↑ Somaly Mam : The Road of Lost Innocence. Spiegel & Grau, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-385-52621-0 .
  10. ^ Police Deny Killings at Somaly Mam Center. In: The Cambodia Daily. April 21, 2012.
  11. ↑ Sex Slave Story Revealed to be Fabricated. In: The Cambodia Daily. October 12, 2013.
  12. ↑ Somaly Mam: The Holy Saint (and Sinner) of Sex Trafficking. In: Newsweek . May 21, 2014.
  13. ↑ Somaly Mam Steps Down After Exposé. In: The Cambodia Daily. May 30, 2014.
  14. ^ Gerry Mullany: Activist resigns amid charges of fabrication. In: The New York Times . May 29, 2014 (Quote: She said the foundation retained a law firm in March to investigate the allegations, which were raised by The Cambodia Daily in articles in 2012 and 2013).
  15. ↑ Simon Marks, Phorn Bopha: More Questions Over Somaly Mam's Kidnapping Claim. In: The Cambodia Daily. April 25, 2012.
  16. ↑ "Cambodia Daily": $ 6.3 million in taxes required - traditional Cambodian newspaper closes after a dispute with the government. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 4th September 2017.
  17. ^ Cambodia: Accusation of treason against opposition leader Sokha. In: derStandard.at . 3rd September 2017.
  18. ↑ Katharin Tai: Cambodia. China is coming, democracy is going. In: Spiegel Online . 13th September 2017.
  19. ^ Ashley Westerman: Cambodia Daily Newspaper To Close After 24 Years. In: National Public Radio . 3rd September 2017.
  20. ↑ Katharin Tai: In China's front yard. In: Zeit Online . May 14, 2018.
  21. ↑ Anger Mounts as Radio Purge Knocks 19 Stations Off-Air. In: The Cambodia Daily. August 28, 2017.
  22. ↑ David McNeill: Defiant Cambodia Daily is down but not out. In: The Japan Times . October 22, 2017.
  23. ↑ Pang Vichea: Cambodia Daily's website, Twitter blocked by government order. In: The Phnom Penh Post . 5th February 2018.
  24. ↑ Cambodia Daily YouTube Channel.
  25. ↑ Cambodia Daily Facebook Channel.