Online magazine hopes to fill Asia's English news gap

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2006

HONG KONG (AFP) — A newly launched Asia-wide online news magazine hopes to fill the gap left by the demise of a brace of English language current affairs publications, its editor has said.

Asia Sentinel went online Monday at www.asiasentinel.com offering a diet of news, lifestyle and business articles from around the region.

Editor John Berthelsen said he hoped to pick up readers lost in a radical shake up of Asia's media in the past few years.

"English-language readers in Asia have been let down by a shrinkage of news coverage from the region," Berthelsen told AFP. "That's why we're doing this."

The region's media have been transformed with 24-hour rolling TV news and Internet sites eclipsing traditional newspapers and magazines, which have also...

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