Khmeronomics

30/12/2016

Happy New Year Everyone

04/12/2016

21/11/2016

For foreign journalists working in Cambodia, please consider joining the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia for their upcoming AGM.

16/11/2016

National Press Club of Cambodia Twitter Account now live. Follow . Looking forwards towards more lively debates. Drop us any suggestions on topics/speakers.

10/11/2016

Faces of the 4th Estate/Free Press/Role of Media in Cambodia National Press Club of Cambodia - ក្រុមប្រឹក្សាជាតិសារព័ត៌មានកម្ពុជា Panel & Audience @ Kampot Writers & Readers Festival កម្មវិធី សិល្បះ វប្បធម៍ និពន្ធ និង អាន. We value above all else the freedom to voice our opinions, speak our minds and tell our stories.

06/11/2016

Excellent, yet equally robust & heated debate and discussion on Standards & Bias in Cambodia and the role of media in Cambodia today Kampot Writers & Readers Festival

Some topics which were discussed.
1. Future of Ethnic-media
2. Facing incentives to provide quality, or lose Readers
3. Evolution of media
4. For/against free speech/media
5. Types of speech control
6. Two-tiered media system (Khmer & English)
7. All media has a bias
8. Danger in people thinking that English-language media is unbiased
9. Pro-foreign bias can cause problems = possible for foreigners to abuse that trust
10. Duty of care = foreign journalists need to be aware of their high power to influence
11. Need #1 = general public needs to understand no media (including foreign) is perfect
12. Need #2 = foreign journalists "with great power comes great responsibility"
13. Need #3 = forums for reasonable discussion b/w people who disagree in good faith
14. Responsibility of a journalist is to truth
15. Perception by pro-CPP people that foreign media has anti-CPP bias"
16. National Interest versus Public Interest

Thank you to our panellists
Phatry Derek Pan, Khmerican Inc
John Temujin Humphreys, PRIME Cambodia
Alex Willeyms, Phnom Penh Post
Kalyan Ky, TPC

We look forwards to the next panel. If you have any potential topic suggestions/ or questions, please write below or message us.

06/11/2016

...it’s the individual that has the voice and different things to say, and that’s what we’re trying to capture...

On Wednesday evening writers and the public had a chance to rub shoulders with the organizers of the Kampot Writers and Readers Festival, with cocktails at Raffles Hotel Le Royals Elephant Bar....

04/11/2016

The below post starts with a famous quote from the British philosopher John Stuart Mill regarding free speech.

A well-functioning society needs many people sharing and discussing different ideas, but there is an ongoing debate about whether there should be speech regulations and/or media regulations. Some people argue that the government should restrict various types of words or ideas, though there is often disagreement about exactly which ideas/words should be banned. While most people argue about which words/ideas to restrict, classical liberals oppose all restrictions and defend total free speech.

We will be exploring these ideas (and more) at the NPC panel discussion on Standards & bias in Cambodian media, being held from 12-2pm tomorrow (Sat, 5-Nov) as part of The Kampot Writers & Readers Festival, Nov 3-7, 2016. កម្មវិធី សិល្បះ វប្បធម៍ និពន្ធ និង អាន.