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Myanmar journalists measure audience reach in Facebook likes, not page views
“And I found experiences that sort of going around and talking to journalists in Myanmar, they don't talk in terms of page views, they don't talk in terms of readers, they talk in terms of likes.”
Tech incubators require a pre-existing community to succeed
“It turns out that what you really need is a strong pre-existing tech community that was looking for a seed crystal.”
Myanmar went from zero to seven daily newspapers after lifting censorship
“Those regulations changed a little bit more than two years ago, and we suddenly had an explosion of daily newspapers at least seven dailies going out, where you once had none. And you suddenly got many, many dozens of weekly publications coming out.”