Asia Sentinel
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Type of site | Blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | United States |
| URL | asiasentinel |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
The Asia Sentinel is an online blog focused on news, business, arts and culture in Asia. The site was launched in August 2006 in Hong Kong,[1][non-primary source needed] and its assets were transferred to a U.S. registered company in 2017.
History
[edit]The Asia Sentinel was founded in Hong Kong in August 2006 by four journalists from the United Kingdom and the United States who were based in Asia. The editor-in-chief, John Berthelsen, was formerly a correspondent with The Wall Street Journal Asia, as well as the Newsweek correspondent in Vietnam and managing editor of the Hong Kong Standard.[2][unreliable source?] Co-founder Philip Bowring was formerly the editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and a former columnist for the International Herald Tribune.[3] Executive Editor A. Lin Neumann, a reporter, was formerly executive editor of The Standard and also represented the Committee to Protect Journalists in Asia.[citation needed] Neumann left the Asia Sentinel in 2012.[citation needed] The fourth founder, Anthony Spaeth, was previously a Time Asia regional correspondent, and left the Asia Sentinel shortly after its founding to work for Bloomberg.[4]
In 2017, the publication's parent company in Hong Kong ceased operations, and assets were transferred to a new company, registered in California, that owns all newly written stories.[5][non-primary source needed]
In 2023, the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs stated that access to the Asia Sentinel would be blocked in Singapore if it failed to comply with a POFMA correction order issued by the Singapore Government. Asia Sentinel subsequently partially complied with the order by placing the requisite correction notice below the article at issue, alongside a statement that the publication was "reserving the right to answer [the Singapore government's] demand at a future time" and that "we stand by our story".[6] As of 2 June 2023, the site could still be accessed in Singapore.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ John Berthelsen on the future of Asia Sentinel Archived May 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "John Berthelsen on Substack". Substack. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ Bowring, Philip (September 13, 2017). "Indonesia & China: The Sea Between". The New York Review of Books.
- ^ "Online magazine hopes to fill Asia's English news gap". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2006-08-02. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ "Asia Sentinel | Substack". The Asia Sentinel. 2022.
- ^ "Singapore to block Asia Sentinel website for not complying with POFMA correction direction". CNA. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
- ^ Li Ying, Lee (2023-06-02). "Online access to Asia Sentinel to be blocked in Singapore after site did not comply with Pofma order". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
External links
[edit]- Asia Sentinel official site
- Why Asia Sentinel will survive, opinion piece reviewing the Asia Sentinel