The Rush of Conventional Media Towards Social Media
Reuters Digital News Report 2021 has clearly shown how online media has become the favorite media for most Indonesians, especially those in urban areas. With an internet penetration of up to 71 percent of its 276 million people, conventional media such as newsprints, television, and radio are all seeing their customer base being slowly undermined...
The first time I heard about the Maverick x UNPAD Fellowship Program was from my lecturer. She asked me if I’d be interested to participate as a candidate. I had very little idea what it was about but as a Communication Science student with a severe case of FOMO, I said yes immediately. The next...
"Never stop learning”, that was the advice my father gave me on my first day in Maverick. It was not always be on time or be a team player. It was a reminder to be curious, absorb knowledge, and apply it when we can. It was a reminder that our surroundings change, and the perfect...
Podcast: Trendy, Edgy, but Short of Supporting Facilities
Podcast is an abbreviation of iPod and Broadcast, an audio recording that can be listened to through the internet. Since being introduced to the public in the early 2000s, podcasts have grown and developed into new media. In Indonesia it showed a rapid growth as seen from the number of new podcasters appearing every year,...
Through #UntukJurnalisID program, Maverick Indonesia collaborate with the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) develop a mental health program for journalists or media workers called Perawatan Pulih Jiwa
Luring Niche Online Media Readers with Paid Content
we are in a situation where online media is facing pressure or competition from social media. This is a phenomenon that has been happening for quite some time, following the appearance of social media
#UntukJurnalisID: The Struggle to Find a NICU Ward for a Baby with COVID-19
Novi Nadya, journalist at Fimela.com, and Covid-19 survivor. Covid-19 has definitively tested me and my small family. Just 12 days after I gave birth to my firstborn, we were both declared positively infected with Covid-19. As was my husband. While still having to deal with the pain from my still fresh cesarean wound, I also...
Journalists are the less obvious front-liners in the pandemic. More of them are getting infected by COVID in the latest surge of cases and we need to help them out.