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Asia's Media Innovators Vol 2.0 - Chapter Eight

by Alastair Carthew

Phuket website continues journalism's noblest traditions

Old-fashioned, fearless and opinionated journalism: That's not really what you would expect from an online newspaper covering Thailand's major tourist destination Phuket. But that's exactly what the "Phuketwan" website is doing. And several international quotes testimony its credibility and show that old-school journalism can still be an innovation.
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Phuket website continues journalism’s noblest traditions


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The Phuketwan website in Thailand’s major tourist destination, Phuket, brings old-fashioned, fearless and opinionated journalism to the Internet in a region where such things are generally lacking. Testimony to Phuketwan’s credibility is the number of Thai and international news sites and organisations that frequently quote it as a reliable source on Phuket. For example, Phuketwan broke the story about the Thai army’s disgraceful treatment of Rohingya boat people in January 2009 that prompted an award-winning CNN documentary. In its “About Us” section the Phuketwan website says: “We are not here to constantly praise the island’s virtues or to cover the kind of crimes that happen everywhere around the world. We just aim to provide an accurate account in words and photographs of Phuket and its people, including both smiles and warts.” In this respect Phuketwan differs markedly from virtually every other island publication, apart from the Phuket Gazette, the main weekly news-paper, whose website carries many of the same daily stories, but with less trenchant opinion and comment.

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