The Malaysian Insight Halts Publishing Amid Salary Woes Insiders

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The Malaysian Insight has reportedly ceased publishing amid salary woes, according to insiders at the news portal.
A check on the website shows that the last news item published in the Malay section was at 7am today, while the English site last published a local news report at around 11pm yesterday.
A few items were published after, but those were reports from news wires, opinion pieces, or letters.
Internal sources shared with Malaysiakini that they were informed to "take a break" until all staff were paid their wages by the company's funders.
Malaysiakini was made to understand that the backend of the site had been locked.
It is also understood that most staff were last paid full salaries in November for their October wages.
Each staff was also reportedly paid RM1,000 in December as part of the salary owed to them.
When contacted, TMI chief executive officer Jahabar Sadiq said he was out of town and would check on the allegations.
Merger
The development comes two months after speculation that TMI would be acquired and merged with The Vibes.
Malaysiakini was made to understand that the merger went through and that TMI is now owned by Petra Group, which also owns The Vibes.
TMI was launched in 2017 as a continuation of The Malaysian Insider.
The Malaysian Insider was shut down in 2016 after the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission blocked access to the website, leading the portal's then owner The Edge Media Group to cut their losses.
The Edge had bought The Malaysian Insider in 2014. - Mkini

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