# Mizzima

> Mizzima is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Myanmar. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Lean left**.

- **Domain:** eng.mizzima.com
- **Website:** https://eng.mizzima.com
- **Country:** Myanmar
- **Region:** Asia
- **Language:** Burmese, English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Lean left
- **Founded:** 1998

## About

Mizzima has been in exile for most of its life, from Delhi in 1998 and from a Karen State hillside since 2021. Its daily digest is called Spring Revolution Daily News, which tells you the vocabulary before you open it, and the outlet still ran the story of a resistance government secretary resigning over a corruption probe. Expect junta as the default noun and radio stations that went dark when American funding stopped.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Founded in New Delhi in August 1998 by two veterans of the 1988 uprising and registered in Myanmar in 2012, the first exile outlet to return. Led since its founding by chairman, managing director and editor-in-chief Soe Myint. A separate Mizzima Foundation was incorporated in Myanmar in 2017. No corporate, party or state shareholder is identified; the current registration of the news operation is not published.
- **Funding:** Donor dependent, on an annual budget reported at around two million US dollars, with about five percent self-generated. United States government funding previously supplied 20 to 30 percent and was frozen in January 2025; European governments, United Nations agencies and the embassies of Sweden, Poland and Luxembourg have been named as supporters, and Sweden ended all Myanmar media funding in July 2026.
- **Focus areas:** The Myanmar civil war and the military administration, human rights and atrocity documentation, ethnic affairs, ASEAN diplomacy, media freedom, the 2025 and 2026 election and its aftermath


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-07-28. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 10 (5 themes).

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