Hello,

This month 360info agrees partnerships with two major news agencies - Australian Associated Press and Asia News Network - helping to deliver our research-driven content directly to an additional 400 newsrooms across the Asia-Pacific. 

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is Australia’s only independent national newswire and has been delivering accurate and reliable news content to the media industry, government and corporate sector for 85 years. It is motivated by public interest, ensuring the news service is not influenced by third parties. AAP’s wire stories and images are fed into most Australian newsrooms around the clock and are ready to publish on all platforms and channels. AAP CEO Lisa Davies said the "newswire was always exploring ways to deliver our customers deeper, richer content and is looking forward to shortly providing 360info content for our Australian subscribers". 

Asia News Network (ANN) is a coalition of 24 news organisations from South, Southeast and Northeast Asia. It is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer. ANN’s members include The Korea Herald, The China Post, Kathmandu Post, The Jakarta Post, Phnom Penh Post, Vietnam News and The Straits Times.

AAP and ANN join our growing global partner network, receiving seamless access to high quality and accurate research-driven information.

Read on below for some additional project updates.

Kind regards,

Josh Pitt
Partnerships & Audience Development Manager, 360info josh.pitt@360info.org   

360info.org is an initiative of Monash University. It is proud to host the global headquarters and the Asia-Pacific Hub for 360info.

Essential Context

Did you know that every week we release an 'Essential Context' video to accompany each Special Report?

You can access the free video archive on Vimeo here. Essential Context offers a concise look at the key issues we're tackling each week and can be used as an accessible teaching resource or handy visual snapshot. 

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We also allow anyone to alter, reproduce and remix the graphics and multimedia we create. That's why we've now opened up access to all the assets behind our graphics, along with the Github of data behind our interactives and other code-based content. This includes versions of our graphics without the 360 logo, and components to remix and add to in the spirit of Creative Commons 4.0.

Access the 360info GitHub here.

Special Reports

360info invest a lot of time and long-term planning to align our content with important global events.

For World Press Freedom Day we explored how digital technology has been weaponised to stifle journalism, and how journalists are fighting back.

And with the world watching daily satellite images of the war in Ukraine, we recently examined the opportunities and threats of our dependence on satellite and remote-sensing imagery.

Today, I also wanted to flag some of the event-linked packages we have coming up a little further out in May and June. 

Quad Summit May 24

Later this month, the leaders of India, Japan, the US (and Australia depending on the election result) will travel to Tokyo for a Quadrilateral Dialogue (Quad) Security Summit - the first since the Ukraine war began. To coincide with this important meeting, we're releasing our 'New geopolitics' package exploring the new alliances being forged in the wake of the war, and the impact it's having on the international world order, including Asian nations caught between China and Russia.

World No Tobacco Day May 31

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for human health. It kills more than 7 million people a year and is currently the world’s single biggest cause of preventable death. But it’s bad for a range of other reasons too. We explore them ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 (full package available to media May 30).

World Refugee Day June 20

In collaboration with the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, we explore the changing face of migrants and migration at a time when one in thirty people globally is a migrant. 

International Asteroid Day June 30

Yes, it's really a day! But more importantly, some time in later September or early October this year, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe will slam into a small asteroid with the aim of altering its orbit around a larger asteroid. As the threat of space conflict looms, we explore the jostling for power driven by asteroids. 

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