Khit Thit Media

News agency in Myanmar

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Khit Thit Media

Native name	ရန်ကုန်ခေတ်သစ်မီဒီယာ
Industry	News agency
Founded	1 January 2018; 6 years ago (1 January 2018)
Headquarters	Yangon , Myanmar
Area served	Myanmar
Key people	Thalun Zaung Htet, Editor-in-Chief
Website	yktnews.com

Khit Thit Media (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်ခေတ်သစ်မီဒီယာ; lit. 'Yangon New Age Media') is a news agency based in Myanmar (Burma). It is among the few independent news outlets in Myanmar.^[1]

History

Khit Thit Media was established on 1 January 2018 by Tharlun Zaung Htet, its editor-in-chief.^[1]^[2] Khit Thit Media has been subjected to repeated infringements on freedom of press. In February 2020, nationalists protested in front of Yangon City Hall, calling on Khit Thit Media to remove reporting on nationalist group activities.^[3] In March 2020, a police raid targeted its editor-in-chief and several journalists, for re-posting an interview with the spokesman of Arakan Army, an insurgent ethnic armed organisation in Rakhine State.^[4]

In March 2021, following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, the military regime stripped Khit Thit, along with four other independent news agencies (Myanmar Now Democratic Voice of Burma, Mizzima News, and 7Day News), of its media license for its ongoing coverage of anti-coup protests.^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "MYANMAR: "We won't give up or stop reporting until we have a real democracy"". OHCHR. 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
^ "အင်တာဗျူး | မီဒီယာတွေ ဖာမကျဖို့ စစ်ကောင်စီ ပြောဆိုချက် သူတို့ ဘယ်လို တုံ့ပြန်သလဲ". ဧရာဝတီ (in Burmese). 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
^ "7Day နှင့် ခေတ်သစ်မီဒီယာတို့ကို အမျိုးသားရေးဝါဒီဆိုသူများ ဖိအားပေး". Myanmar NOW (in Burmese). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
^ "Police persecution of journalists and anti-corruption activists in…". Transparency.org. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
^ "Myanmar Military Strips Five Media Companies of Licenses". VOA. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
^ "Myanmar: military revokes licences of five media outlets in blow to press freedom". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2021.