Hlaing Ye Wint. The Quest for a policy preserving press freedom and journalist safety. Master's degree(Public Policy). Chiang Mai University. Library. : Chiang Mai University, 2023.
The Quest for a policy preserving press freedom and journalist safety
Abstract:
The media reform in Myanmar, transitioning from a state regulation system to a selfregulation system in 2012. The Interim Myanmar Press Council introduced a Code of Conduct for journalists, and the News Media Law was enacted in 2014 to guarantee press freedom and establish the Press Council as a conflict resolution body. However, despite these policy changes, many journalists still faced lawsuits under criminal laws. The implementation of the new media policy was ineffective, both under the NLD government and the previous quasi-civilian government. To understand the factors contributing to this inefficiency, a Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) approach was employed, revealing immediate causes, social causes, and deeper layers of worldviews and metaphors. In the finding, press freedom in Myanmar is threatened by numerous factors, starting with the organizing of public campaigns to the signing of international treaties ensuring freedom of expression. The two layers of most immediate causes litany and social causes appeared in the initial phase. However, a more thorough examination of the subject led to the emergence of the world views or discourse layer, the metaphor and myth layer, each with their own cause and being more general and rooted in the problems than the previous layer.