Swe Win

[3] He freelanced for Al Jazeera and New York Times, and set up a short-lived, self-financed internet news service.

[3] In 2015, Swe Win co-founded the news service Myanmar Now, with support from the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

[1] In September 2016, he received President's Certificate of Honour from Myanmar's Ministry of Information for an investigative expose on 2 teenage maids abused by their employers in a Yangon tailor shop.

[6] Under Swe Win's leadership, Myanmar Now aggressively reported and investigated the 2017 assassination of Ko Ni, Aung San Suu Kyi's legal advisor, which made him the subject of legal backlash from authorities, and death threats from Burmese nationalists.

[15][16] On 31 December 2019, Swe Win suffered a gunshot wound while vacationing in Gwa, Myanmar, in a targeted attack.