Stiletto by Max Kolbe – April, 2008

Published on Apr 15, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Britney Outshines Iraq as Playboy Hits The Philippines Five years after the invasion of Iraq and the US death toll has passed 4,000, but less and less people are noticing as the conflict is being relegated on the list of most important stories. The number one daily stories are now more likely to be oil or dollar reports as America tries to avert a recession. “People see gas going up and the price of their house going down …. It’s more immediate than the Iraq war,” Bob Stover, managing editor of Florida Today in Melbourne, Florida was recently reported as saying. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), which measures news content weekly in a mix of....

Stiletto by Max Kolbe – February, 2008

Published on Feb 15, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Going Going (Publications are) Gone The American newspaper owner and publisher, who staked his life savings on Cambodia, Michael Hayes has sold a majority stake in the Phnom Penh Post to two Australian businessmen. Hayes made the sale, for an undisclosed sum, after years of industry doldrums when English-language publications were more likely to be closed, given away or dumbed down into a pretentious trade magazine, than offloaded for a financial return. Ross Dunkley, chief executive officer of Myanmar Consolidated Media, which publishes the Myanmar Times, and Bill Clough, an Australian miner and oil and gas entrepreneur, have taken a controlling stake in the paper. The Phnom Penh Post, which publishes every two weeks, was founded by Hayes 17 years....

Luke Hunt

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Luke Hunt is a correspondent who writes, photographs and produces television packages out of Southeast Asia. Much of his work is divided between The Diplomat, Australian Associated Press (AAP) and Voice of America. He has also freelanced for The Economist, The New York Times, The Times of London and The Age in Melbourne, among many others.He began his career in journalism in the early 1980s after traveling through what was then some of the world’s trouble-spots, including Northern Ireland and the south of Morocco. Hunt initially worked for AAP and then Agence France-Presse where he served as bureau chief in Afghanistan and Cambodia and later as Deputy Economics Editor for Asia.Additionally, he has covered conflicts in Iraq, Sri Lanka, Kashmir....

Correspondents

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

CURRENT CONTRIBUTERSDavid Brown | Dan Boylan | James Fountain | Luke Hunt | Morgan Reinwald | Sreynat Sarum | Craig Skehan | Ny Chhan | Vi Cheka PAST CONTRIBUTORS Shane Worrell | Linna Yourn | Faine Greenwood | Terry Friel | Helen Clark | Denise Hruby | Max Kolbe | Tim LaRocca | Ayu Mandala | Ah Ny | Molyny Pann | Cain Nunns | Karl Wilson | Dominic Whiting | Sheikh Ya’erbuti.

Karl Wilson

Published on Jan 1, 2008 by Luke Hunt

Karl Wilson has been a journalist for more than 35 years.  He began his career on the The Australian in 1972. In 1976 was posted to London where he covered assignments in Northern Ireland, Europe and Africa. For the last 20 years he was based in Asia where he was foreign editor of the South China Morning Post, editor of the Sunday Standard, foreign editor of the Eastern Expressand editor of The Standard in Hong Kong.From 2004 till August 2009 he was bureau chief in Manila for Agence France-Presse. From September 2009 to December 2010 he was the Philippine correspondent for The National in Abu Dhabi. He returned to Australia in 2011 and was appointed Australia/South East Asian correspondent for....