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Frontier Myanmar () is a news and business magazine published in Yangon, Myanmar, owned by Black Knight Media Co. Ltd which also runs a content marketing agency called Black Knight Media Group. It operates an English language magazine, an English language website, and a Burmese language website. Frontier Myanmar mainly focuses on local politics and business.
Launched in July 2015, Frontier is one of the first privately funded English language news publications to open in Myanmar since the government of Thein Sein abolished the country's repressive censorship regime in 2012. Along with Mizzima, it is one of only two English language news weeklies in Myanmar.
Many of Frontier's staff have been drawn from other prominent news organisations in Myanmar, including The Myanmar Times, The Irrawaddy, Mizzima and 7Day News. Thomas Kean, the magazine's editor-in-chief, was previously editor of The Myanmar Times from 2010 to 2016.
Fenster was detained by authorities in May 2021. Fenster was charged with two crimes, was convicted, and was sentenced to 11 years in jail in November 2021, before he was released to return to the U.S.
Sithu Aung Myint was arrested in August 2021 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for incitement.
In May 2018, it received recognition from the 22nd Human Rights Press Awards for a piece on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. In June 2018, the magazine won the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award for Excellence in Business Reporting, for its article "Funny money" along with several honourable mentions. In August 2021, Fenster, a F rontier Myanmar journalist, received the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. In June 2022, Frontier Myanmar won the SOPA Award for Excellence in photography for "The evolution of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution."
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