Sonny Swe

Background

About Sonny Swe

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. Myanmar’s political crisis following the February 2021 military coup means our reporting has become more important than ever. Despite repeated efforts to crush independent journalism, we continue to deliver in-depth reports from all corners of Myanmar, making space for overlooked voices and issues, and reporting the uncensored truth. The military regime’s brutal repression of dissent, the opposition’s shift to armed struggle, rising poverty and economic stagnation, the failure of the international response – we are striving to cover all of the important stories in post-coup Myanmar. In such a polarised political environment, though, we believe our commitment to impartiality sets us apart from other news sources. We believe access to high-quality journalism is important for the country’s future and we make all our content available online for free, in both English and Myanmar languages. Our staff is overwhelmingly national and we are an important training ground for young Myanmar journalists.