Analysis of media shifts across Asia-Pacific: industry changes, policy developments, technology adoption, and regional dynamics. Nabeel Tirmazi leverages regional experience to deliver actionable insights for media executives and policymakers.
September 2026 was a month of regulatory architecture across Asia-Pacific media. Link to the Dashboard: Few major laws reached the finish line. A lot of the machinery that will shape how broadcasters, streaming platforms and media institutions operate was…
August 2026 made one thing clear: the biggest changes facing Asia-Pacific media are happening across several systems at the same time. Dashboard Link: AI governance is developing while broadcasters are already using AI. Platform companies are changing how audiences…
July 2026 pushed long-running vulnerabilities across the Asia-Pacific media landscape into sharp relief. The July 2026 Media Trends Intelligence Dashboard tracked critical signals across the region, from crashing trust metrics to enforceable synthetic media laws. Link to July 2026 Dashboard:…
A Month of Record-Low Trust, Real Deepfakes, and Widening Funding Gaps June gave Asia-Pacific broadcasters a clear read on where things stand, and the numbers were not kind. Link to June 2026 Dashboard: The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report…
AI entered media operations across Asia-Pacific long before most boards noticed. The May 2026 Media Leaders Intelligence Dashboard tracked 20 signals across the region. Eight came in at high urgency. Three require board decisions now. Link to May 2026 Dashboard:…
Link to the Dashboard: The April 2026 edition of the APAC Media Trends Dashboard tracked 20 APAC signals and 7 global signals across a 30-day window. All sources were drawn from open institutional and newsroom records verified within the…
Link to APAC Media Intelligence Tracker for March 2026 The Asia-Pacific broadcasting landscape is not just changing. It is fracturing. And most newsrooms are trying to navigate that fracture without a reliable compass. That is exactly the gap I built…
Dashboard: World Radio Day 2026 carried one theme: Radio and Artificial Intelligence. The conversations it triggered, from Hanoi to Sydney to Paris, were more urgent than the official messaging suggested. UNESCO framed AI as “a tool, not a voice.”…
February 2026 told us exactly where Asia-Pacific broadcasting is heading. And it’s not a comfortable picture. Dashboard Link: I spent the month tracking what media practitioners, editors, broadcast executives, and press freedom bodies were actually saying, not the conference…
The broadcasting landscape in January 2026 is hitting a massive friction point: we are moving AI out of the “test phase” and directly into live production, but the industry is nowhere near ready for the fallout. The most talked-about issue…
