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If you’ve lived through the 90s, chances are that WRP’s catchy jingle “sure you can do, a healthy diet” still echoes in your memory, a testament to its strong foothold in the Indonesian market since its inception. The recent...

The change in how the audience nowadays consume news in the digital era is forcing traditional media to develop their own social media platform. Reuters Institute’s 2023 Digital News Report (DNR) showed that social media has increasingly become a...

Since the beginning of July, “Barbenheimer” has become one of the hot topics covered by the media. Barbenheimer is essentially a term merging the movie titles two box office hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer. These movies are as different as...

Despite being known as one of Indonesia’s top-notch travel destinations, my first trip to Labuan Bajo, Manggarai Barat, West Nusa Tenggara, was not for a typical vacation.  It was for a client of ours – the 1000 Days Fund...

The Chinese word for crisis, 危機 (wēijī), consists of two characters that respectively mean danger and opportunity. This etymology was popularized by John F. Kennedy to illustrate that there’s an opportunity in a crisis. There are perhaps only few...

Maverick’s head of Analytics and Insights Felicia Nugroho recently attended AMEC’s Global Measurement and Evaluation Summit 2023 in Miami, Florida and learned from experts and specialists on the hottest developments in communication and measurement. This is her report: Every...

That evening, Karni Ilyas looked somehow different. The senior journalist greeted viewers in his trademark hoarse voice and proceeded to introduce two women whom he said would join the ranks of the country’s news presenters. Ilyas’ appearance was definitively...

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence(AI)-based chatbot developed by OpenAI has caught the attention of the media. Given its capabilities you’d think that journalists would rush to use it, at least as an aid to their story writing.  ChatGPT could do...

If there’s an easy way to describe what parenting life looks like, it would be a line from Barney in How I Met Your Mother. When he saw his newborn baby he said: “You are the love of my...

I have listened to many discussions among my fellow creative workers, surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Some claim that it has the potential to replace human creativity. This conversation was sparked by the rising popularity of Dall-e...

Reading a book about Stoicism at the end of 2021, I found something that I think is the simplest, most relevant piece of philosophy. More than just a mere thought, it is something that you have to practice. And...

We often talk about how brutal haters can be on the internet, but rarely do we touch on ways public figures or anyone deal with them. A recent phenomenon, however, shows that money can sometimes effectively turn haters into...

It is really not surprising that just days after the new Penal Code was passed at the parliament, the Press Council immediately threatened to challenge it at the Constitutional Court citing threats to democracy, including to press freedom and...

In 1981 a popular song by the Buggles proclaimed that Video killed the Radio Star. The premise was that the new technology of video would supplant radio. The report of radio’sdeath was, however, premature. It continued to thrive worldwide...